First High-Res Color Photos from Mars

Posted by michael on Tuesday January 6, 2004 @09:10AM from the martians-blend-in-with-the-terrain dept.

mzs writes "The first color thumbnail from Spirit was available yesterday from a larger image. Today some full-size color images are available. If you are in the USA you may be interested in catching the NOVA program on your local PBS station tonight." Acrobatman notes the existence of a nifty utility:"Mars24, a Mac OS X and Java application and applet which displays a Mars 'sunclock', a graphical representation of Mars. This free utility shows the current sun- and nightsides of Mars, along with a numerical readout of the time in 24-hour format and landmarks such as the landing positions of the rovers."

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Because that's its color on Mars by kippy · 2004-01-06 09:19 · Score: 5, Insightful

I think you're mixed up. Unless I'm gravely mistaken, the sky on Mars is indeed red and not Blue. The atmospheres vastly are different in both content and pressure. Also, there's probably a lot of rust dust in the air colloring things.

You might be thinking of the Martian sunset, which is blue.

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