Eli5: why is this rover camera Black and White

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Is it needed for a specific purpose or what? Wouldn’t it be easier to take a normal unedited image and Later use a filter on it?

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A b&w image can have significantly less data than a colour image of the same resolution,. When you’re trying to send images from Mars this means getting the images back to earth much quicker.

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