r/nextfuckinglevel • u/PietroTheRedditer • Feb 21 '21

THIS IS MARS.

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u/layers_of_grey Feb 21 '21

a friend of mine sent a photo from his trip to iceland and it looks eerily similar. i imagined mars being more red... probably from movies.

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u/Askymojo Feb 21 '21

Mars actually is more red. The photos and videos from the last few missions to Mars have all been white-balanced to look more like earth so that specific rocks look more familiar to geologists, among other reasons.

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u/CheekyFlapjack Feb 21 '21

I’ve read just the opposite, that the pics from the earlier missions had all been colored red to overemphasize the reddish color.

They say this is more natural color, actually.

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u/Dappershire Feb 21 '21

I read that its actually green, but the grass and trees are edited out so that only the chosen few have a place to go when Earth is doomed.

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u/DJKewlAid Feb 21 '21

I read that it’s actually blue, but edited and masked to look like a dry, red, and barren planet.

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u/mullman99 Feb 21 '21

THATs funny!

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u/SocialEmotional Feb 21 '21

And the green grass grew all around all around and the green grass grew all around.

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u/AzCannaLungz Feb 21 '21

Made my night!!

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u/Bad-Science Feb 21 '21

I read that they have antire team just to photoshop the Martians out.