What do you think the extensive green landscape is in this picture of Mars'? (Vanity)

[LibWhacker]

If you have it installed on your computer, fire up Google Earth and click on the icon along the top edge of your screen that looks like Saturn. A menu will drop down. Click on Mars. After Google Mars loads, enter these coordinates into the search bar: -84.2952811,-56.5576401 .

Here's what you'll see:

At first, I thought someone had photoshopped it. But you can see that isn't true.

So what do you think it is? I don't know if the picture is presented in true color, but if it is it sure looks like moss to me!... Moss that can survive temps as low as -125F in a constant bath of cosmic rays.

[Dad x 3]

Answer: soil.

[LibWhacker]

Mars’ soil is red over the entire planet. What makes this soil green?

[steve86]

Carbonate deposits.

[Yaelle]

Cheese.

[MHGinTN]

If that’s Moss, watchout for the nematodes.

[Kickass Conservative]

>>>Mars’ soil is red over the entire planet. What makes this soil green?<<<

Soylent Green, it’s People!

[LibWhacker]

That’s plausible. Are green carbonate deposits on earth usually associated with algae?

[LibWhacker]

I want to go there because... free cheese!

[smoothsailing]

Aha! That explains the little green men!

[BigEdLB]

So much of Iron on MArs, Red-Brown Oxidation state +3, Green Oxidation State +2... Just a different chemical process.

[bobby.223]

Tough looking 18.

[BigEdLB]

Fe+2 is green, Fe+3 is Orange/Red/Brown.

[shibumi]

[LibWhacker]

Okay, cool, thanks. I was also wondering about copper, but the shade of green doesn’t look right.

[fatman6502002]

It might not be in true color.

[Bringbackthedraft]

Looks like someone took a picture of metal and covered it with pond slime. ???

[Slyfox]

[no-to-illegals]

Whacker, don’t know but suspect a mineral deposit possibly similar to brass or copper.

[Charles Henrickson]