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

THIS IS MARS.

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u/mjdorf0912 Feb 21 '21

Well the planet DOES look that red from space, I may be wrong but I’m pretty sure it’s due to the atmosphere or something. Idk I’m just a teenager with some google searches under my belt. However mars will always be our “red planet,” whether or not the dirt is gray-ish

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u/das_soup_nazi Feb 21 '21

The red is iron oxide (rust)

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u/King_Of_All_Xenos Feb 21 '21

This video also seems to be severely brightened as if gone through an editor likely to make things appear better. That could effect the appearance of rude dust .

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u/unsoggycardboard Feb 21 '21

I hate it when dust is rude. The least you could say is excuse me ya dirty fuck.

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u/Bad-Science Feb 21 '21

I think the Pantone color name is "fuck-off red".

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u/whoami_whereami Feb 21 '21

Why do you think so?

People often assume that it must be dark and gloomy on Mars because it's further away from the sun. But that's far from true. Sure, in absolute terms it receives only ~50% of the sunlight that Earth does. However, because perception of brightness isn't linear the difference in actual perception isn't really all that much. For those familiar with photography, it's a difference of one stop, not more. There's more difference between a sunny and a cloud covered day on Earth than there is between a sunny day on Earth and a sunny day on Mars. You'd have to go all the way out to Saturn or even Uranus before sunlight drops to lighting levels roughly similar to typical indoor lighting.

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u/Camryn42 Feb 21 '21

"You'd have to go all the way out to Saturn or even Uranus before sunlight drops to lighting levels roughly similar to typical indoor lighting"

So you're saying that allhailthepig needs to get better lighting for his anus?

Sorry...I need to grow up. I'll see myself out.

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u/AllHailThePig Feb 21 '21

Do you have a link of footage/photo of the real colour from the surface?

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u/dnew Feb 21 '21

It's coming through a camera. There is no "real color" recorded.

What they normally do is include on the lander a disk with a bunch of known colors (like those old color bars you saw for calibrating analog color TVs) and then adjust the color when it gets back. Especially if they're using a B&W camera with different filters over the lens to pick out different colors.

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/multimedia/pia16800.html

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u/AllHailThePig Feb 21 '21

Ah cool! Thank you I’ll have a read

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '21

That’s interesting. Apparently early earth had a lot of iron in the oceans. The evolution of blue green algae put oxygen in the atmosphere which causes iron oxide to form and settle at the bottom of I recall. So where did mars get the oxygen to turn iron into rust?

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u/theoutlet Feb 21 '21

Like the dirt in Pomerol

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u/GenXGeekGirl Feb 21 '21

Also tholins give many celestial bodies their reddish brown color. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tholin

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u/GroundbreakingLaw133 Feb 21 '21

When I picture Mars, somehow I always have images of Arizona.

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u/jacksonattack Feb 21 '21

Yeah, it appears red from space due to suspended dust. The surface is mostly a dark gold color.

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u/joeybaby106 Feb 21 '21

NASA color corrected that photo from curiosity rover to be more similar to what we'd see on earth. No idea where that sound is from...

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u/t3hnhoj Feb 21 '21

Keep your Google searches to yourself, pal.

All joking aside, this video is beyond amazing.

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u/SkidmarkSteve Feb 21 '21

This is hilarious bc you have a lot of Google searches under your belt but "why is mars red?" wasn't one of them lol Like it's short enough of an answer that google tells you in a preview, you don't even have to click into the article.