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Actually it appears that in the absence of dust storms, the color of the sky on Mars is, in fact, blue, much like earth's. In some pictures I've seen, you might mistake the martian landscape for Arizona!

http://mars-news.de/life/

and

http://mars-news.de/color/blue.html

Although take it all with a grain of salt. There are good arguments for and against the blue sky. The JPL, unfortunately has never put forth a lot of convincing proof for the red sky, fueling this debate further.

Actually it appears that in the absence of dust storms, the color of the sky on Mars is, in fact, blue, much like earth's. In some pictures I've seen, you might mistake the martian landscape for Arizona!

http://mars-news.de/life/

and

http://mars-news.de/color/blue.html

Although take it all with a grain of salt. There are good arguments for and against the blue sky. The JPL, unfortunately has never put forth a lot of convincing proof for the red sky, fueling this debate further.

Read this about the true colour of Mars:
http://mars-news.de/color/blue.html

Aw, c'mon. At least give him a "funny" mod!

C'mon, look at the pictures! It's obvious that it landed somewhere on Earth...

(Explanation--at least in regards to the PathFinder pictures--is here.)

Even the images that say "true color" or "near true color" aren't really that. From what I've read (and it was on the internet so it must be true), mars on the ground doesn't look all that different from an average arizona or nevada desert scene. In some Viking images from the 70's the sky is quite blue with white clouds. Same from pathfinder. Although during a dust storm the sky is definitely reddish, just like it is here (watched a dust storm roll across the Med from the sahara once -- made the sky a sick red color even though I was a thousand miles from the sahara). See, for example, http://mars-news.de/life/ or http://mars-news.de/color/blue.html

Does anyone have any good gimp filter parameters for making some better color images from the raw nasa ones?

Even the images that say "true color" or "near true color" aren't really that. From what I've read (and it was on the internet so it must be true), mars on the ground doesn't look all that different from an average arizona or nevada desert scene. In some Viking images from the 70's the sky is quite blue with white clouds. Same from pathfinder. Although during a dust storm the sky is definitely reddish, just like it is here (watched a dust storm roll across the Med from the sahara once -- made the sky a sick red color even though I was a thousand miles from the sahara). See, for example, http://mars-news.de/life/ or http://mars-news.de/color/blue.html

Does anyone have any good gimp filter parameters for making some better color images from the raw nasa ones?

Sure, cool. Sure, sounds like a sci-fi flick soundtrack... but for sure that is not a "sound" someone would "hear".

This is an arbitrarily distorted representation of radio waves. No one would ever "hear" this, so what's really the point?

Same goes for images, really. Here's an Interesting article about calibration... It shows the possible outputs from the same base images. Compare these two Viking Images.

Everything is relative... Some singers use Auto-Tuners to "sound better". Pr0n images are often photoshopped/ airbrushed to hide flaws, enhance shapes or just faked (cool article and you can google for "fake-detective" for the guy's site)...

Is this "space sound" real? Are these singers singing for real? Are these photos real? What is "real"? Where do you draw the line?

Sure, cool. Sure, sounds like a sci-fi flick soundtrack... but for sure that is not a "sound" someone would "hear".

This is an arbitrarily distorted representation of radio waves. No one would ever "hear" this, so what's really the point?

Same goes for images, really. Here's an Interesting article about calibration... It shows the possible outputs from the same base images. Compare these two Viking Images.

Everything is relative... Some singers use Auto-Tuners to "sound better". Pr0n images are often photoshopped/ airbrushed to hide flaws, enhance shapes or just faked (cool article and you can google for "fake-detective" for the guy's site)...

Is this "space sound" real? Are these singers singing for real? Are these photos real? What is "real"? Where do you draw the line?

Sure, cool. Sure, sounds like a sci-fi flick soundtrack... but for sure that is not a "sound" someone would "hear".

This is an arbitrarily distorted representation of radio waves. No one would ever "hear" this, so what's really the point?

Same goes for images, really. Here's an Interesting article about calibration... It shows the possible outputs from the same base images. Compare these two Viking Images.

Everything is relative... Some singers use Auto-Tuners to "sound better". Pr0n images are often photoshopped/ airbrushed to hide flaws, enhance shapes or just faked (cool article and you can google for "fake-detective" for the guy's site)...

Is this "space sound" real? Are these singers singing for real? Are these photos real? What is "real"? Where do you draw the line?

=is that no one has really posted any links to the images inquestion in order to provide any sort of balance to this argument. There are more images available of a "city"-like formation a few miles from the city. There's been math done to calculate orientation of the objects in question in relation to each other. Investigate this. don't write it off. Those in control of the flow of information are just afraid of letting every one else know what they may not be ready to know.

Seriously, I can't wait to hear latest serious "analyses" from Mission Enterprise and Mars-News.de

The red one is the same alien as on the sun-dial above where you see one of its two long claws scratching on the sun-dial.

This one looks like a little JarJar from StarWars - Episode1:

The red one is the same alien as on the sun-dial above where you see one of its two long claws scratching on the sun-dial.

This one looks like a little JarJar from StarWars - Episode1:

The red one is the same alien as on the sun-dial above where you see one of its two long claws scratching on the sun-dial.

This one looks like a little JarJar from StarWars - Episode1:

On one of his pages , he abbreviates the word "see" as s. I believe this is the first time I have seen this - it could be indicative of an ancient civilization corrupting the English dictionary via a computer-to-human transmissible virus broadcast back to earth by Mars rover Spirit once it fell pray to the Demon of Mars (which, incidentally, is also red)!

There is a reason, you just don't know it...
He uses perfectly correct german punctuation, where main and subordinate clauses are seperated with a comma (like before the 'where' I used and unlike the arbitrary comma in your example). His website ends in '.de'... michael on the other hand has no excuse for not correcting it.

Actually he uses normal german punctuation where main and subordinate clauses are seperated with a comma. (Unlike your sentence with arbitrary commas).
His website ends in '.de'...

The ammount of gibberish in the mars-news.de site!!!!

Check the final paragraph of this page

Way to go, Michael.

There's some color-corrected photos here that show this:

http://mars-news.de/life/

Basically, the theory behind it is that:

1) The colors of the Viking lander, especially in the US flag on it, are mismatched and discolored. When the hues are remapped in a paint program to the correct colors of the flag, the sky turns blue.

2) The atmosphere seen at an angle from the Hubble is almost always blue.

This latest landing only makes it the conspiracies flourish, because in 1997 and even in the 1970s when Viking landed, they immediately had color photos. Why was the color being hidden?

Interesting article on the color of Mars.

Mars ain't so red...

I'm more excited about the use of these dials for photocalibration. Mars may or may not have a blue sky, but at least we can know for sure with these things on their way.

This is from the same people who bring you the secret connection between Star Wars Episode I and Mars.

don't forget those strange anomalies like animals on the pathfinder mission.

yeah. ok.

This is from the same people who bring you the secret connection between Star Wars Episode I and Mars.

don't forget those strange anomalies like animals on the pathfinder mission.

yeah. ok.

Opps...

I actually should have sent you to The Color of Mars bit on this site.

Thanks.

isn't that because we have huge oceans for light to reflect off of, and cast a blue hue through the atmosphere?

No.

In fact, Mars does have blue skies when red dust storms aren't obscuring the view of the atmosphere. See here

I would like to see some more research done on the Pyramids of Elysium that Carl Sagan wrote about.

W e l l , I 'l l l e t y o u d e c i d e f o r y o u r s e l f .