First TV Image of Mars: Interplanetary color by numbers (2016)
> Though he used a brown/red color scheme, the thought that Mars was red did not enter his mind. [...] It is uncanny how close his color scheme is to the actual colors of Mars. It’s as if they came right out of current images of the planet.<p>I'm sceptical. If you look at Mars from Earth, you can see it's red even without a telescope.