The red planet (13 Photos)

Is that water? If it is that mean mars has atmosphere. All we gotta do is plant a few trees.

ok i would have sworn these are not real they look so… weird. the first Picture looked like something out of a sci-fi flick

If these are real I need to see some sauce, because I am not aware of any images like this coming out of the Phoenix Lander or Odyssey Orbiter (the most current missions). These images are artist renderings are are, in fact, sci-fi.

Furthermore, just FYI, all Phoenix images are black and white with color added by NASA as a “best-guess” based on spectrum analysis.

Hogwash.

The first one is a “what if” pictured based on Mars topography that’s been done. It’s a What If the oceans on Mars were still around, what would it look like.

i never knew Mars was such a sick looking planet, way to go mars

apparently bob is an idiot.

Wait a minute…I see someting…

Is that Dr. Manhattan?

Don’t get me wrong i love chive, I love the pictures. But this looks fake, I just hope chive confirms the info before they post it.

mars is such a nice looking planet. It just needs to be terraformed now.

oh and all of you guys saying the pictures are ‘fake’. yeah how are they supposed to fake a picture of a planet? like they have paper larger than a planet to draw it on… morons.

These are fake.

These are typical for frustrated Astronomers who would like to imagine what outer space would be like if they could really see it. In reality their pictures are pretty boring and blurry. These are artist renderings of what the scientist thinks they probably look like.

@aaron
Man..seriously? Do you really belive what you wrote?
Please somebody tell me he was just sarcastic.

you don’t need a huge piece of paper to fake a picture fool

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DOH!
The Phoenix spacecraft was a Mars northern pole lander! #1. It could not have taken any of these photos. #2. All (or most) of these photos are Photo shopped.

NASA just use photoshop!

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