[dead]

Maybe its a "mood planet" and is unusually complacent at this time.

Seriously, this is supposedly true color, so the old images were obviously inaccurate. Probably color-enhanced incorrectly.

[sam_paine]

Well that's what bugged me about the darn Mars rover pictures! They kept "enhancing" them to get the "true color". Wish they'd just duct tape a darn CCD USB webcam to a strut and send that back raw!