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.I'm sceptical. If you look at Mars from Earth, you can see it's red even without a telescope.