From: bweimann@wallnet.com
Subject: color of sky on Mars?
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 97 11:28:13 -0400
Hello all LFMers, I just popped over to the Washington Post website as Susan suggested. Yes, Susan, it is a very good article. Thanks for the recommendation. Did you, or anyone else read the "opinion" article? I try to keep up to date, but may have missed this fact. I know that Hubble data has told us recently that the temps on Mars are much colder now than previously, but does anyone know if the data also indicated that the skies are no longer dusty pink but rather BLUE, as stated in this Washinton Post article?? (I thought they were still pinkish.) I'm not psychologically ready to think of them as blue.<BG> Am I being a little like Ann, in Red Mars? "Earthlings just born when the Vikings landed in 1976 have reached the age of majority, and the Martian weather has changed completely; we know from the Hubble Space Telescope that dusty pink skies have given way to cold blue ones." This quote is from the article (online) at the Wasington Post website: Mars: Why We Must Go We Cannot Satisfy Our Fascination With the Stars by Sending Robots Into Space By Thomas Mallon Sunday, June 29, 1997; Page C01 The Washington Post Barb ----------------------------------------------------------- bweimann@wallnet.com -----------------------------------------------------------