[philman_36]

Forget the dress - what colour is MARS? Some people say the planet looks a lot more like home than we think

The debate has raged since the 1970s when Nasa's Viking 1 lander became the first spacecraft to touch down on the red planet/ Its initial images revealed what appeared to be a blue sky (right), but in reality Nasa says the planet has a red/orange sky. On the left is a processed image of what Nasa believes Mars to look like

As I said...it's been an issue for some time.

[PIF]

Image on right (with the blue sky) was on monitors color calibrated minutes earlier. Image on left is the consensus view of what the color SHOULD be.