Busted! - NASA Caught in the Act!
The above images can be found on http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/spirit/20040108a.html
At the press conference Jan. 10th 2004, the JPL-scientists showed the latest picture of the Martian landscape. It showed a salmon-colored desert with a blue sky. It seems that they did it on purpose, since previous pictures were all extremely red. Below the pictures of the conference are shown:
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The above pictures were taken from Associated Press
It shows the same picture with the same hill on the upper-right, slightly zoomed-out. The Administration of the NASA seems to have tampered with the picture.
But there's more. On this NASA-site there's an article with: "Hazy Martian Skies".
"This image mosaic taken by the Mars Exploration
Rover Spirit's panoramic camera shows the hills southeast of Spirit's landing
site. Like a smoggy day in Los Angeles, dusty martian skies limit how much
detail can be seen" there's written in the article.
Using Raw RGB (red, green, blue) data from JPL you get this:
These same rocks look like a blurry red pile of rocks on the NASA-picture,
with no detail at all.
The guys from JPL say, in the press conference: "On the ground, the warmest temperature is around
five degrees Celsius (37 Fahrenheit) and the coldest is -15 degrees Celsius (5
Fahrenheit)". But the NASA-site says: "This graph shows the predicted daily change in the atmospheric
temperature one meter above the surface of Mars at Gusev Crater, the Mars
Exploration Rover Spirit's landing site". With a picture above it
with a curve shown from -70 degrees celcius to -5 degrees celcius! Who's
Right? The guys of JPL Scientists or the Administrator of the NASA?
Color calibration seems to be confirmed by scientists of Ames Research Center.
They created a 3D-model of this anomaly:
This picture above has been taken from http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/mer2004/rover-images/jan-12-2004/captions/image-5.html
It's of high scientific relevance that the colors are displayed correct. As you can see, there are displayed blue rocks, which might indicate they might be iron ore rocks. Here's an example of similar stones on earth:
ENTERPRISE MISSION WEBSITE: http://www.enterprisemission.com/colors.htm
Hubble Telescope pictures of Mars showing a blue atmosphere: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/category/solar%20system/mars/
Artificial dome and tunnels on Mars: http://ida.wr.usgs.gov/html/m15012/m1501228.html