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Cool Photo from Mars

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HB King
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Brighter than in real life but looks a lot like the Southwest US in this shot.

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA19912
 
PIA19912_ip.jpg


Brighter than in real life but looks a lot like the Southwest US in this shot.

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA19912

I was curious about the blue sky but this explains it.

"The colors are adjusted so that rocks look approximately as they would if they were on Earth, to help geologists interpret the rocks. This "white balancing" to adjust for the lighting on Mars overly compensates for the absence of blue on Mars, making the sky appear light blue and sometimes giving dark, black rocks a blue cast."
 
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