lotlatino, I love the pic! hah hah! A blue sky on Mars. What will they try next? Hey, maybe it's real. Hmmmmm......

I haven't read the entire thread, so if this has been brought up already, I apologize.

Carl Sagan addressed this very picture in his book Pale Blue Dot. Put simply, he made a comparison to adjusting the color on your TV. Color on your TV is made from mixing red, green, and blue light. In order for the images on the screen to look right, you need to adjust the color balances on your set.
Images from space need to be similarly adjusted. The analysts working on the Viking (where this picture came from) were not planetary astronomers. When they got the image, they adjusted it to look "normal." This problem was quickly resolved, but not before the picture was sent out to the press.
That's why you see the same image. One with a blue sky and one with a red.

I honestly beleive we are not getting the true story about Mars.I think this IS the real pic of Mars and the others are just what NASA wants us to think it looks like since we have always been told that the planet was red and the pics they show us look red too.If this pic is REALLY Mars.

[edit on 5-1-2008 by totallyhuman]

OK, now we got on a picture that NASA released as "picture of the day" the following entities: 1) a humanoid- like creature, 2) water and blue sky and 3) a skull.

And the right answers are... 1) it is just a shadow, 2) there is no water, but the color is distorted on that area. The "waves" are sand patterns and 3) it is just a rock.

Originally posted by greeneyedleo
Regarding the "alien". Um, if that rock were an alien....wouldnt it be like Tinkerbell size, considering the size of the rover? I mean, its REALLY tiny in comparison, ya know?

Sorry I must ahve missed the memo that said all Marians had to be no shorter than 4ft...where was that memo anyways...i think i saw it here somewhere...

Had a good look at the rover, is it just me or does it look like it was thrown together by some garage mechanics.
How much did it cost? looks like not much to me, I don't think it looks that technically advanced.
Anyway why is the long tubey thing coming from the rover on this pic, half missing, if it is because it is a load of images stuck together to get the panoramic effect, then why have they bothered to do the rest of the picture quite good, but did the rover bit quite rubbish?.

I read through this WHOLE thread thinking there was something potentially there; I scanned the whole picture thinking there might be something there....

PFffffffftt!

All I see are rocks, sky and Rover!

Somebody mentioned "why doesn't Mars have clouds?" Well, it does. One of the Rovers filmed moving clouds (you'd have to dig into it a bit, I don't have time right now, but I'm sure you could Google it or something).

The blue coloring, IF the picture was true color, of the "pond" and the ripples in it are just sand dunes, or more precisely, probably what NASA has already coined as "Blueberries" (bluish looking rounded granules of rock).



And, people, that humanoid figure---its not proof of life---any imbecile can see that it is OBVIOUSLY a lawn gnome!

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The original picture is NOT true color.
If it were you'd be able to see the 4 colors on the rover, you can only see 2, this picture is fake and you all need to sort your head out, you are all gullible as ****. Would you beleive me if i said i had a green pet elephant??? In fact you all probably would

Interesting photo.

Certainly open to the possibility of it being a true reflection of Mars, however this could be a color adjusted photo as was claimed a few times in this thread.

I should point out that if this photo reflects the true colors of a Martian landscape it is a cool find. I would suggest though that people who suspect this not be so desperate as to try and throw wood on the fire by adding "other" anomalies they think they see. I think those sort of imaginary leaps make those that believe this photo is an authentic color representation of Mars lose credibility. Just relax...take a deep breath...and look at the photo for what it could be. A Nasa slip up, or a color adjusted Nasa photo.

I see no water, just Martian soil. No grass just rock. No Martians observing rover just rock formations. This is from someone that suspects Mars had life at one point and probably has bases on it somewhere now.

I see an interesting picture that doesn't need a lot of desperate attempts to jazz it up.

Good find.

- Lee

Originally posted by Dont Hate Rats

Originally posted by greeneyedleo
Regarding the "alien". Um, if that rock were an alien....wouldnt it be like Tinkerbell size, considering the size of the rover? I mean, its REALLY tiny in comparison, ya know?

Sorry I must ahve missed the memo that said all Marians had to be no shorter than 4ft...where was that memo anyways...i think i saw it here somewhere...

Ok. To cut short the debate about the Martians, here's what they look like in comparison to the rover...And they don't seem to approve of outsiders screwing around on their territory.


Courtesy: allhatnocattle



But seriously, it's well known that NASA has been fudging most of the Mars pics since the 70s.

Here's to mud in their eyes, for denying the truth!

Very nice find.

Maybes it's just me but that picture what people are seeing as a humaniod/person or whatever you want to call it looks like it's pointing to somthing whats looks like it's underneath the rock to the right? Maybe they are friends and one of them fell down and the other is just reaching to help them up

Well as it's the same colour as this statue person and darker then the rocks around it.

[edit on 5-1-2008 by Spacedeck]