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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There are 23 cameras on Perseverance. Some are 4K and color. The first images were from a lower quality camera that was exposed during landing, why that one happened to be B&W, only JPL can tell you. Rest assured there will be many more very high quality and very colorful photos coming soon.

ok maybe not colorful, it’s safe to assume they’ll all be rust colored, but you know what I mean.

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