I understand using spectrometry techniques that the "ice" can be defined.
GOOD
Then perhaps you will understand THIS
Water ice in crater at Martian north pole
www.esa.int...
Water at Martian South Pole
17 March 2004
Thanks to ESA’s Mars Express, we now know that Mars has vast fields of perennial water ice, stretching out from the south pole of the Red Planet.
www.esa.int...
So it would seem that the Scientists in the European Space Agency agree with Mike
And that image above IS a frozen lake with snow on the ridges..
You have looked at a photo wishing to see proof of Martian existence and found it.
The colour variations are usual corrections that you get. The white balance on the landers would have been configured based on earth-light. Pictures
transmitted to Earth are always corrected one way or another...
Quite true... NASA "corrects" to the red side... and the blue sky crowd "corrects" to the blue side... both sides show images where the white
rover parts are reddish or bluish.... yet if you look at the other galleries you see a more correct image. Now I will show you an image from Mars in
true color
HOWEVER it is the color it would look like IF it had the same level of light as Earth
This image is from NASA...
Spirit Sol 859
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The rock in the foreground is basalt, variety scoria... It is a blueish black... so with very little adjustment to the original image.... (no these
are not the ones generally released to the press but they are publicly available)
This is a piece of the same scora - basalt on Earth
No with the colors closely matched you can suddenly see the sand of Mars looks a lot like most of the same type of terrain in the western USA. The sky
is a bluish tint, that is greyish due to dust.... The atmosphere is not dense enough to appear blue from Earth, but it is blue from the surface.
Mars has a blue atmosphere?
Here is a rover sunset Blue dusty sky small sun... again a NASA image...
Here is another shot... This one is from Pathfinder...
You just simply have to do a little research...
