Excuse me if there is another on going topic the same as this, i did a search and did not uncover one.

I just felt it would be cool to see some Mars views here. I make my own colour Mars views as do many other people. I would be very interested to see yours. Maybe we can gather them here together for a cool gallery.

I regularly update my website with colour Mars images i've created from the raw B&W data sent back by the mars Rovers Spirit and Opportunity. I felt though it would be good to share a couple here every so often.

 Spirit Rover - Exploring the region around "Home Plate"

 

Opportunity Rover - At the rim of Victoria Crater. 

These great photos, I like the rock in the first one because it reminded me of concrete rubble from 100yr old buildings that I have worked on when doing alteration/restoration work. Good idea this!

Thanks Doberman!

I like that image too. I really like the way i was able to bring the texture of the rocks through.

I've often visited Lanzarote, in the Canary Islands just off the west coast of Africa. All the canary Islands are volcanic. lanzarote has a huge national park full of craters, it is a stunning volcanic landscape. It is one of my favourite places. Mostly because it reminds me of Mars!

But, to get to my point. I really like this image because i can relate to it as real, having seen many views just like it in that national park. 

I know mission geologists place volcanic rock pretty low of their priority list on this mission. For good reason when you consider other rocks could hold much of interest. But, they certainly make for great pictures!

Anth

Another image i've just added colour to from the Spirit Mars Rover. This is from the latest batch of images.

Rover Panoramic Camera :: Sol 1145

More New Colour Images Click Here.

Nice images.  I like your website too.  Have you seen this guy's images:

http://www.lyle.org/~markoff/

He has some impressive images but I think the ones on your site are of better quality overall.

Thanks for posting the images.

jsmoody : Thankyou loads.

That guys site is certainly very impressive, he's done brilliant work. Thanks for the link. I like his images. I do feel though that they are a bit light for my own tastes ( but, that of course brings out much detail, so that is not a bad thing at all. ). I think how these images turn out depends firstly of course on the process you go through making them, then there is the huge factor of how you want Mars to look in your head, or how you actually envisage Mars to be. You will always be biased towards making Mars look how it appears in your imagination.

Until we have a human on the surface with a digital DV video camera etc, we won't know who is right.

If i had to comment on my own pictures, i would say they are somewhere between that guys, and NASA's. Which at times are way too yellow tinted for me.

Then of course nobody knows what lighting effects are at work on Mars for sure, it is another world, no matter how Earhlike some of these images make it look. The sun is far away, dust hangs in the sky, etc.

The mars in my images is firstly the product of the two software titles i use, and largely down to how i imagine Mars to be. 

 

 

I do prefer your photos to his.  I think his are a little light for my taste too.  But he as done a lot of good work. 

 

I just put together a new Mars Panorama from B&W images released yesterday.

The image below is one segment of it. It was taken by the spirit Rover on Sol 1159.

The whole Panorama and some more new Mars imagery, and also some brand new New Horizon's stuff is on my site. http://anthmartian.googlepages.com/thisislandearth

 

Anth Martian,could you tell me why does Mars interest you so much?I dont know,many astronomers here loves Mars,maybe because they love blood....yuck.

Dark Neptune wrote:

Anth Martian,could you tell me why does Mars interest you so much?I dont know,many astronomers here loves Mars,maybe because they love blood....yuck.

This is a very starnge comment Please explain the reference to blood

I'm not sure either Doberman!?

Dark Neptune. Probably because robotic exploration of Mars was at a very exciting point, just at the right time in my life. In 1976, i was 7 years old and it really captured my imagination seeing the first colour pictures from the surface. Plus i happened to visit London's science museum during that period, which had a fantastic display of Viking on Mars and in orbit. 

Seeing full scale replica robot landers on a mock martian landscape there, and blown up colour images from the surface sure get you excited at 7!

I missed the Moon landings really, being too young, and born in 1969. So the Viking landers were my Neil and Buzz. 

That, coupled with Mars being the next likely colony for humans beyond Earth/Moon, and the great fiction written about Mars which i've read, all added up to me being very excited about every Mission to the red planet. 

Okay Doberman,it does not offend anyone I hope.The blood,comes from Mars's skill,which most of you guys here should know that Mars was named after the Roman God of War after the bloody-red appearance seen by the ancients.That's the blood I'm talking about.

Dark Neptune wrote:

Okay Doberman,it does not offend anyone I hope.The blood,comes from Mars's skill,which most of you guys here should know that Mars was named after the Roman God of War after the bloody-red appearance seen by the ancients.That's the blood I'm talking about.

In future it might be of help to be a little less cryptic in your comments so as to clear up misconceptions

It's been a slow time for us Mars Rover colour fans! Some wonderful incomplete RGB sets have been on show at the MER Home site. But nothing to work with really for some time now.

However, this image from Sol 1136 captured by Opportunity is quite interesting.

More Rover imagery which i've worked on can be found here 

I have just added a small Spirit Rover update to my site here.

Included is a Panorama made from 2 black and white image which i coloured. It has several dust devils towards the top of the image which keen eyed observers may notice.

 

I have seen these and they are impressive not to mention quite dangerous. I flew a hang glider for about 18yrs and dust devils were one of the most frightening occurences in the takeoff area. They travel in any direction, and like a tornado they give no warning signs on change of direction. I have seen them tip gliders upside down on mountain takeoffs and put the pilots into hospital.

Doberman : It would be interesting to find out how a dust devil would effect a human on the surface. I suspect it would not do much at all, and would be hardly noticable apart from the cloud of dust itslef being visible. Some of the martian dust is comparible to cigarette smoke in the size of the grains, easily whipped up. Also, a 100 mile an hour gale on Mars would feel like a gentle breeze here on Earth.

Dust Devils have actually done spirit a favour in the past. Cleaning off the solar panels! 

I think that the nightmare visions of martian dust stroms wreaking havoc on manned missions is best left to sci fi. It might spoil the view for a few days, but that's it. 

In the past when I have encountered them away from my glider I felt nothing more than a light breeze, like the tail end of a thermal lifting off. If you know what I mean, it is quite a pleasant feeling. I have watched dust devils from my house as they pass across farmland and the amount of dust they can carry is amazing.

I am aware that they are a lot stronger and more violent in the Owens Valley ,  giving a better indicator as to the amount of damage they could do in a desert environment. I dont know if you are near that area, but if you get the chance one summer go take a look see.

Heres hoping you are right

dark neptune i am also intrested in mars, not for blood but for fossils. i saw some imagery from nasa and some of the rocks look like sedamintary rocks,one day we will find fossils on mars this will be one of the biggest  events in history.   chef roy

thanks for the imagery. great job.  chef roy