Wow, Idk what to make of that, other than it looks like a moss of some sort. I'd say if you can't find it on the net anymore, then its a gem, granted you haven't messed with it in any way. I'd like to believe its a real image, but of course there's always going to be people who scream hoax. Either way nice image, starred and flagged.

Interesting photos.. neither of them have had any colour change at all? I say this because as well as there being what looks like moss and blue rocks.. the sky is blue.

I have seen these photos before, and I think it was here on ATS but I'm not certain. If it was taken on Mars than this is quite amazing and it wouldn't surprise me too much when considered next to the image tampering that NASA has been caught doing. Either way, I can't tell if they were really taken on Mars or not. It could just be Arizona for all I know. It's a lot different from the Mars photos I have seen from NASA but I know now those had altered colour and other garbage.

I would also say don't take orange/red too seriously either ... as they are also not true colors.

I doubt that shield was that color just after the impact. There is no doubt in my mind that isn't natural color (shield picture). Looks kinda like it would if you wore orange sunglasses (yes, I know, a friend had some orange tinted glasses, crazy and disorienting a bit).

They do have a set of filters that work, but, they don't like to use them much

L2 L5 L6 is it? I may be off, since it was a few weeks ago I looked it up


You know, I think NASA likes the CTs, it keeps some public interest, which helps with keeping funding. Why else wouldn't they use the proper filters for at least one set of pictures a day or month.

Those are not the actual colors. NASA filters and puts in different colors for the general public (and some things are easier to see). They do it for the "general public" which I don't agree with. Just publish the untouched/unaltered pictures, it would save so much confusion.

On some pictures, you can see a circle with 3 triangles on the base. Red, Yellow, and Blue. They are also labeled. When NASA "fixes" the colors, you can easily tell by looking at the color key, they are no where close to the true colors.

I know this much. Mars has trace amounts of oxygen. Now I know oxygen can be made from electricity and water but not much and not on the scale to support oxygen on mars unless Mars has lots of rainstorms we have never documented. This leaves only one explanation. Plants.

If I had to guess I would guess that the photo of the green stuff was taken in either the upper or lower hemisphere closer to one of the poles.

Originally posted by titorite
If I had to guess I would guess that the photo of the green stuff was taken in either the upper or lower hemisphere closer to one of the poles.

The rovers are nowhere near the poles.

Both rovers landed closer to the equator and have only traveled a few miles in their lifetimes so far. Since landing 4 1/2 years ago, Spirit has traveled only 4.6 miles (7.3 km) and Opportunity has traveled only 7.2 miles (11.5 km), so they could not have traveled to the poles. This photo is taken near one of the landing sites, since the spacecraft's heat shield is visible in the distance.

The picture is false color, so the items that look green in that picture could be just about any color in real life.

Even though the rovers will not get near the poles, there is a probe -- the Mars Pheonix Lander -- that will land near Mars' north pole this coming May...but it is not a rover, so it will stay in only one place where it will take soil samples and conduct experiments that will look for signs of organic compounds.

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The green in the image can be the colors that were adjusted or it can be something like rust (copper rusts green for instance). It is not moss.

As to the statements that Nasa tampers with the images to make Mars more red: you are stating a problem that Nasa encountered when they first landed on Mars and took color images. If I remember correctly, the colors weren't correct, because the martian atmosphere filters light differently than earths atmosphere.

The reason why they alter colors is, as stated hereabove, to see more details. They're not trying to make Mars look redder. If you want to know what Mars looks like for real :it's full of rust, so you can guess the color yourself.

Hi.

What a beautiful and fascinating planet Mars is.

Would like very much to visit one day.