[philman_36]

Of course, it's an old subject for some...

"Revealing the True Colors of NASA …."

From the startlingly simple process of merely reinstating the original Viking surface color data (now available at certain official NASA websites), so the flag appears as "normal" (!) (like in this version, produced by Barry Arneson in 2001 – below), one gets the distinct impression that "certain individuals" in NASA – three decades ago – for some arcane reason, didn’t feel Americans were "ready" then … to see the real "Red Planet."

[Boogieman]

“so the flag appears as “normal””

That’s a flawed process too. After all, if Mars’ atmosphere has a reddish hue (which seems to be the case), then if you were on the surface, the white in the flag logo would not appear white, but reddish. Therefore, correcting the photo to make it appear white would not give you the true colors as they would appear to you on the surface.