Paul wrote:In fact it's kinda pinkish (as celestia shows) and blue at sunrise & sunset. Pathfinder images show this very well.
Well, Celestia's just copying the results from Mars missions, isn't it? Also, I don't recall seeing any Pathfinder pictures that have any blueness to the Martian sky. Do you have a URL to any such images? The only ones I've seen that had any blueness were the ones which had been "re-adjusted" away from the NASA version.
What would be the point of altering the images anyway...? What would they gain from making it seem less earthlike...?
The reasoning (speculative, of course) was that NASA tinted the images to make them look more "alien" because they thought the images looked too Earth-like, and they were afraid people would think that the pictures were of some Earh desert and the mission was a hoax... sounds depressingly familiar, doesn't it!
Cheers,
Paul
You can find loads on the google image search
http://images.google.ie/images?hl=en&ie ... b=wi&meta=(ok some of them have red sunsets too, but many are blue)
However- I really, REALLY don't think that NASA would stoop to the level of altering photos, just to satisfy some stupid conspiracy theorists. Anyway, if they did, it doesn't seem to have worked, because theres always some wacko going around saying we never went to the moon/landed on mars/ etc etc...
Btw Paul please don't say that you actually
believe in some of this hoax rubbish...
Fridger wrote:I do not believe these colors.
How come that /all past truecolor RGB photo's/ from HST's wide field camera have this very red appearance (see my photo's from the Nasa site a number of threads [in textures] back) that also nicely extrapolates to what I can see with my own eyes in my telescope!
I wouldn't be experienced enough to tell you... Maybe they are slightly false colours, to show up more detail etc? After all the Hubbles job is to return the
best, most detailed pics, not to show us what we would see ourselves, if we were in hubbles position.
I think...
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