From: LanFleming@aol.com
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1998
To: cydonia@majordomo.pobox.com
Below is a message I sent to SPSR members. I got an interesting response from Vince DiPietro, which I will send separately to the list.
I recently listened to a RealAudio interview from the Laura Lee Show archive that was done last July. The guests were Dr. Gil Levin (PI for the
Labeled Release experiment on the Viking landers) and his son, Ron, who is a physicist at MIT. I'm sure you're all familiar with Dr. Gil Levin's
story, but his son described something that I had never heard before:
Ron said that he was a 20-year old grad student and was at JPL when the first color images came in from the lander. He said those original images
showed a blue sky and rocks with greenish patches on them, and that the Viking imaging team quickly adjusted the images so that the sky and the rocks
all had the reddish color we're familiar with. Levin made it clear that there was no scientific justification for these "adjustments", and he
speculated that the color was changed because the planetary scientists took a dim view of the greenish patches on the rocks, which suggested some
primitive form of plant life might be growing right on the surface.
more at link below:
www.mufor.org...
(edit to remove most of the content duplicated on the other site)
[Edited on 11-1-2004 by SkepticOverlord]