Mars

[Tetraspace]

Could Mars actually have true color as earth? Because there is some evidence that NASA maybe hiding something from us. I found a website where it shows Mars with true colors not rusty red.

http://xfacts.com/spirit2004 it seems pretty logical to me. Share your opinions on this.

[ydoaPs]

actually, the first pictures from mars shwed a blue sky. afaik, that was caused by a programming error

[JohnB]

What the hell is that round thing in the picture at the bottom of the page?

 

I followed some of the links to the official NASA .jpg. It's real, but what is it?

[smitheo1]

I don't know what that is...looks real like the face of Mars, until it is displayed upclose. As for the color, there are more sandy red rocks on the ground that reflects the light, giving it a reddish hue. Even if it is false, there's not too much of an atmosphere to give Mars a blue hue from the ground up. There's too much dust and wind. But what if you could alter the conditions of the atmosphere?? You know, we can make snow here on Earth, so it could be possible.

[Newtonian]

I dont know what it looks like up close,but they cannot be cheating too much.I think everyone agree's it seems pretty red through the telescope.!!

[Sayonara]

All they've done with those pictures is remove the colour calibration that is needed to show the image in truecolour.

[Anarchaus]

Im sure you all seen the old and mabye the new pictures of the face on mars, the old shows, well a face, and you cant see all the details, but you can see how the shadow covers the landscape. But in the new pic, the "face" is shown at the same angle, at the (more or less) the same t.o.d.

 

now i know it could be the angle to the sun, but the two shadows did not look in any way the same, the first had a smooth boundary, but the second was much smaller and rougher, and not just alittle bit, it looks like the shadows of a mountain range(up down up) not smooth.

 

i can't find two comparisons for you guys, buit if anyone else can, that would be great.

[Anarchaus]

LOL, i would laugh if it turned out these pictures are from northern Canada.

[Anarchaus]

oh yes, also,

 

when i was reading about solar system formation, it seems that most of the heaviler elements ier, iron sink to the "bottom" and lighter elements "float" to the surface, why would their be enough iron in the soil to turn it red, when it should have "sunk" 4.5 billion years ago, when all the inner planets were still molten?

[mustang292]

This is neat. For a conspiracy theory, this looks like full body(space suit)weathered by time and covered with dust. Up top right would be the head, a little lower you can see the arm sleeves as if someone laid down on their side and died. All the way to the bottom for the legs.

[Hellbender]

AFAIK, the red color is due the atmosphere, but I could be wrong. I don't see the picture above as anything but some rock or something.

[Sayonara]

when i was reading about solar system formation, it seems that most of the heaviler elements ier, iron sink to the "bottom" and lighter elements "float" to the surface, why would their be enough iron in the soil to turn it red, when it should have "sunk" 4.5 billion years ago, when all the inner planets were still molten?

Because planetary surfaces aren't typically made up of layers of different elements. Go outside and take a look.

[Ophiolite]

Iron is an important constituent of many of the major silicate minerals, which in turn constitute the greater percentage of igneous rocks (from which all other rocks are ultimately derived). Examples include the olivines, pyroxenes, amphiboles and micas, all of which have iron rich members. The greater part of the iron differentiates out and sinks to the core, but iron is pretty common, so there's a lot left over.

[razorfane]

Why would they hide this?

[J.C.MacSwell]

This is neat. For a conspiracy theory, this looks like full body(space suit)weathered by time and covered with dust. Up top right would be the head, a little lower you can see the arm sleeves as if someone laid down on their side and died. All the way to the bottom for the legs.

 

It's a Bi-ped for sure, as the sea turtle entering the bottom of the picture can clearly see! Obviously some humanoid arrived first, followed by even more intelligent sea creatures that do not require spacesuits in that atmosphere.

 

As for the colour of the surface, I don't think we should jump to any conclusions without some more data.

[insane_alien]

look through a telescope. mars is red. anyway that picture from "raw data" couldn't exist because of the way the photo's are made. they are taken in RGB format and have to be merged before a picture that is close to true colour appears. the reason that it is close is that it includes parts of the infrared and ultraviolet spectra for scientific purposes. mars is red you can even check it with the naked eye. besides how could you cover up an entire planet bigger than our moon that con be seen by anybody on earth!