Mars looks blue...seen from Earth

mars is red... i have a telescope... i've seen mars through it dozens of times, and it's not some POS scope i bought from kmart. it's a meade lx-200, if that means anything to anyone... also, the blue around the ice caps is because it's frozen carbon dioxide. about 90 degrees below zero... and it has a bluish tint, if you've ever seen dry ice you would know that.

Originally posted by junglejake

Ok, so the moon landing is bunk (I saw your latest post. Why didn't the proofs make sense?),

The proofs? Well he answered like one or two out of scores of questions and by refering to articles and pages with even more NASA stuff. And to the question "Why are there no night shots?" he replied that this wasn't possible. And as for why nearly no stars are showing up on the pictures distributed from NASA since the start of the space age, his answers and explanations just doesn't make sense.

the existance of computers was covered up by our covernment (The first computer to come out came out a lot earlier then '76! We had computers on bombers(B-29) and Wall Street had mainframes durring WWII...

Oh yes. Exactly where I am going at. Stealth technology needs lots of computers to function at it's best, and this was invented and done during the Cold War. Those guys sit on technology that to us would seem completely alien. And that #e is expensive so to forge an interplanetary mission would look like a good way to channel great sums of money to even darker budgets. I just find it suspicious they should send up these capsules now, when the USA's popularity is on the fall, OPEC is threatening to change SOC to Euro, and USA needs more money to wage and mainatin wars and occupations than ever. My instincts tells me I am not the one who is gonna be fooled by their unrightious masquerade.

Blessings,
Mikromarius

Is Mars red or blue? Seems to me the topic is stated wrong.
To say that Mars is red, one is right in a sort of way because it is for sure there is a predominance of a red color in the Marsian SOIL(!). There are also other colors in the Marsian soil like the gray/blue/black of stones, the white of the ice and the green of the purported 'olivine'-mineral, but these aren't as dominant as the red.
To say that Mars is blue, one is right in a sort of way
because as was stated in previous postings the ice gives of a blue-ish hue. But the main question is whether the Marsian ATHMOSPHERE(!) is blue.
How can you know this is the case?
To see the colours of an athmosphere FROM OUT OF SPACE you have to look
at the limbs or edges of the planet because there light will have travelled the longest way.
When I look at that Portugese guy's picture I see blue
edges, when I look at the Hubble picture I see blue.
But not only that I can also clearly see CLOUDS.
Now to see the colour of an athmosphere ON THE PLANET you have to look straight up so you don't have any disturbances of dust, heatwaves, moisture etc etc.
NASA pictures show a fairly reddish hue.
Given reason ....dust in the air because of winds.
But that would only be reasonable for horizon views for how higher you look the clearer it would get. Compare it to earth where horizon-air is greyish and straight overhead it is blue.
And is it really always windy everywhere?
And if there are clouds, are they CO2 or H2O clouds?
If it is H2O and there is dust in the air isn't there supposed to be rain?


By the way looked in my old astronomy books (for kids but still) to look at the viking-pics of Mars. And to say that there hasn't been made use of red filters is like...
well not telling the truth.

About computers and how long they've been around... When you zero your computer calendar clock, what date and time do you get to?. Isn't it in 1904 or something?

Blessings,
Mikromarius

Gilbert Levin, one of the chief scientists in the Mars Viking Lander project, also has concerns about NASA's depiction of colored images. If he has doubts about it why shouldn't the rest of us? He was fired by NASA for his public criticism of how the agency handled Viking data.

mars.spherix.com...

I like to make this point over and over to anyone who will listen: science isn't about defending orthodox interpretations of reality, but about the collection and analysis of data, forming hypotheses, and testing them.

Levin claims that the Viking project found good evidence of life on Mars.

www.amazon.com...=1076204258/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-3327221-1090210?v=glance&s=books


[Edited on 7-2-2004 by Condorcet]

Originally posted by PAX
Hi Everybody,

Please check these Mars pictures;taken from Earth by
an amateur astronomer in Portugal in 1998/99.One can
see clearly that there is lots of BLUE in it ...
This astronomer is an amateur,has nothing to do with
official entities,he bought everything himself.
I think NASA has found some kind of ElDorado there and
wants to keep it secret untill US dominance is certain.
It`s a bit like when the Portuguese found a way around
Africa to go to the spices paradise in the East ... LOL !!!


www.astrosurf.com...
www.astrosurf.com...

www.enterprisemission.com...

yes on every picture there seems to be blue on Mars. Maybe NASA just doesnt want to tell us that there's water there