An appeal to any Photoshoppers who might be reading this: are these smoking-gun images of vegetation on Mars or is the green the result of spurious filtering?
"are these smoking-gun images of vegetation on Mars or is the green the result of spurious filtering?"
A third explanation I know I've seen (although I don't recall exactly where) is that some of the green (also previously photographed) on Mars is due to exposed copper deposits....
I'm not judging one way or the other. I don't think the pix look photoshopped though, although simply adding (or changing) color is probably the easiest operation to do....
I'm a photoshopper and that is WAY easy to do. Besides, why would anyone assume that vegetation on Mars would be green? It could just as easily be orange especially if Mars is a red as they say it is.
Logic would dictate that since Mars is further away from the Sun, it is receiving less overall light that would carry the "green" band spectrum. So I would say no to photosynethic plants.
But that wouldn't exclude fungal life forms, especially if the cave hypothesis turns out correct.
"are these smoking-gun images of vegetation on Mars or is the green the result of spurious filtering?"
ReplyDeleteA third explanation I know I've seen (although I don't recall exactly where) is that some of the green (also previously photographed) on Mars is due to exposed copper deposits....
I'm not judging one way or the other. I don't think the pix look photoshopped though, although simply adding (or changing) color is probably the easiest operation to do....
--W.M. Bear
I'm a photoshopper and that is WAY easy to do. Besides, why would anyone assume that vegetation on Mars would be green? It could just as easily be orange especially if Mars is a red as they say it is.
ReplyDeleteLogic would dictate that since Mars is further away from the Sun, it is receiving less overall light that would carry the "green" band spectrum. So I would say no to photosynethic plants.
ReplyDeleteBut that wouldn't exclude fungal life forms, especially if the cave hypothesis turns out correct.
photosynethic = photosynthetic
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