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Originally posted by Uncertain1
reply to post by zookey
From a telescope it's red and that's the only way I've seen.I've read today about it not being red still if we could see it as we do the moon it would look red so to me it's still the red planet.so what colour is it then.
The NASA-funded team found the first organic molecules thought to be of Martian origin; several mineral features characteristic of biological activity; and possible microscopic fossils of primitive, bacteria-like organisms inside of an ancient Martian rock that fell to Earth as a meteorite. This array of indirect evidence of past life will be reported in the August 16 issue of the journal Science, presenting the investigation to the scientific community at large for further study. The two-year investigation was co-led by JSC planetary scientists Dr. David McKay, Dr. Everett Gibson and Kathie Thomas-Keprta of Lockheed-Martin, with the major collaboration of a Stanford team headed by Professor of Chemistry Dr. Richard Zare, as well as six other NASA and university research par
Originally posted by Uncertain1
reply to post by zookey
so what colour is it then.
Originally posted by Segenam
Originally posted by Uncertain1
reply to post by zookey
so what colour is it then.
Red.
Well ... much of the iron has rusted, giving the red desert appearance ... is my understanding ... Obviously rust indicating H2O in some form ...
Im unsure about the colour of its atmosphere though ... ie .. when looking up to the martian sky from its surface ..
I remember NASA showing as a pic a lander took of that vantage point .. and the sky was blue .. just like ours ..
Within hours .. they had changed it to red .. and said when they first added the artificial colour .. they made it blue because the operator made a 'wrong assumption', which they then corrected ..
But that was many years ago, and, if im not mistaken, i think the Mars atmosphere is supposed to have a similar tinge as ours ?
Originally posted by zookey
Best way to know, get a group together and launch your own probe.
it ain't as if were all gona pack up and go take a look for ourselves is it really.
The Mars program was a series of unmanned spacecraft launched by the Soviet Union between 1960 and 1973. The spacecraft were intended to explore Mars, and included flyby probes, landers and orbiters.
Early Mars spacecraft were small, and launched by Molniya rockets. Starting with two failures in 1969, the heavier Proton-K rocket was used to launch larger 5 tonne spacecraft, consisting of an orbiter and a lander to Mars. The orbiter bus design was likely somewhat rushed into service and immature, considering that it performed very reliably in the Venera variant after 1975. This reliability problem was common to much Soviet space hardware from the late 1960s and early 1970s and was largely corrected with a deliberate policy, implemented in the mid-1970s, of consolidating (or "debugging") existing designs rather than introducing new ones.
In addition to the Mars program, the Soviet Union also sent a probe to Mars as part of the Zond program; Zond 2, however it failed en route. Two more spacecraft were sent during the Fobos program. In 1996, Russia launched Mars 96, its first interplanetary mission since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, however it failed to depart Earth orbit.