No doubt the color of Mimi and other blue rocks on Mars will be brought up. Will they say these are accurate colors of Mars or not?
In any case there is an inconsistency in how some react to the colors on Mars. If a scientist such as Steve Squyres says that an area looks "reddish" or that the rocks or pebbles are "greyish" then that's fine: the images are accurate. But if the images shows blue or green then suddenly, it's "You can't get accurate colors, from Mars!!"
Bob Clark
Press Release Images
13-Jan-2004
Flaky "Mimi"
This color image taken by the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit's panoramic camera on Sol 40 is centered on an unusually flaky rock called Mimi. Mimi is only one of many features in the area known as "Stone Council," but looks very different from any rock that scientists have seen at the Gusev crater site so far. Mimi's flaky appearance leads scientists to a number of hypotheses. Mimi could have been subjected to pressure either through burial or impact, or may have once been a dune that was cemented into flaky layers, a process that sometimes involves the action of water.
Image credit: NASA/JPL/Cornell
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