Mars 2020 Rover Mission, Canals, Dams and is the Martian Sky Blue or Red?

A look at what a Chief Engineer said about the Martian Sky … it’s ‘Bluish’ and the Mars 2020 Rover Mission Landing Site.

A ‘bluish’ sky on Mars:

During live coverage of NASA’s InSight Lander successful landing on Mars, Rob Manning (Chief Engineer: NASA JPL) had the following to say on InSight’s 1st photograph of Mars returned to Earth: “Oh, there it is. You can see a better view. You can see that really is debris and there’s the horizon back there … ah, the blue … bluish-sky, uh, uh, that’s part of the lander deck on the front left, um, I can’t take out, but it looks like there’s not a lot of rocks in the field of view …”

Listen to Rob Manning (Chief Engineer: NASA JPL) saying the Martian sky is blue: https://mars.raptorzone.co.za/downloads/Rob-Manning-Chief-Engineer-NASA-JPL_Mars-Blue-Sky.mp3

The 1st photograph return by InSight after landing, note the blue Martian sky
The 1st photograph return by InSight after landing, note the blue Martian sky (click for larger image)
The original image above with NASA's 'Mars Filter to show what happens to normal colours after it is applied
The original image above with NASA’s ‘Mars Filter to show what happens to normal colours after it is applied
A zoomed-in view of the control room monitor with normal colours shown
A zoomed-in view of the control room monitor with normal colours shown
The image above with NASA's 'Mars Filter' applied
The image above with NASA’s ‘Mars Filter’ applied
Sol 1: Instrument Deployment Camera (IDC), note the blue sky just vanished
Sol 1: Instrument Deployment Camera (IDC), note the blue sky just vanished (click for larger image)

Now the question remains, is the Martian sky blue or red as we’ve been shown by NASA who add a ridiculous red/orange/mustard-colour filter to all their Mars imagery and why do they do it?

The Mars 2020 Rover Mission Landing Site:

Two HiRISE photographs are analysed here:

The 1st photograph analyzed here (ESP_037818_1990) was taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on 21 August 2014 and is described as ‘Candidate Landing Site for 2020 Mission in Jezero Crater.’

The 2nd photograph analyzed here (PSP_002743_1985) was taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on 26 February 2007 and is described as ‘Proposed MSL Site in Nili Fossae Crater.’

Seen are what I speculate to be large canals (4 to 5 m wide), feeding a network of smaller canals. The canals are straight and intersect at right-angles. The larger canals seem to originate at large circular depressions, perhaps dams/water reservoirs?

Could this be an old agricultural area? Maybe these anomalies are what are left of roads and an elaborate transport system?

An elevated view of this site being analyzed
An elevated view of this site being analyzed (click for larger image)
An elevated view of this site being analyzed
An elevated view of this site being analyzed (click for larger image)

ESP_037818_1990:

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PSP_002743_1985:

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Original NASA sources:

https://www.uahirise.org/PSP_002743_1985

https://www.uahirise.org/ESP_037818_1990

Articles referenced:

https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/multimedia/raw-images/

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-announces-landing-site-for-mars-2020-rover

https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/

https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/mission/rover/

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Disclaimer:

Images saved from within HiView or CTX viewer do not include image scale indicators. The image scale indicators I include in images are based on the official resolutions provided by NASA and although I strive to be as accurate as possible there may be slight deviations from the actual scale. Image scale indicators are included as a size approximation tool only.

Geometry lines are mapped as accurately as possible using the limited information, data and mapping tools available at the time, therefore the lines may deviate from target sites by a few kilometres. Revisions may be made in the future as new, more precise information, data and mapping tools become available.

Many or all of the anomalies/artefacts covered in this presentation may be naturally occurring geological features caused by some type of geological processes, however due to the lack of specific information from the source we can only speculate whether these are all natural or some artificial in nature.

In cases where I say an anomaly looks like something I’m attempting to clarify what I see and not specifically that the anomaly is what I say it looks like.

My intention is only to share anomalies I’ve discovered on Mars and not to convince anyone that there is or was a civilization on Mars.

As Will Farrar from WhatsUpInTheSky says: “I see what I see, you see what you see.”