Later today, scientists are expected to complete a full color panorama of the landing site of the Mars Phoenix mission.

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But scientists hope that it will eventually enable color vision.

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But scientists hope that they can improve the detail to eventually enable color vision in its wearers.

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Optical scientists cleverly named the visible mix rendered by the colors in light the Color Rendering Index.

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