Vastitas Borealis - Sol 1 (Approximate True Colors; credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona )

Visto?!?...Le "colorizzazioni" NASA? Prevedibili. Sempre prevedibili.
Prevedibili in maniera quasi sconcertante: dai cieli "rosati" (che abbiamo già visto sopra Gusev Crater e, sebbene più raramente, sopra Meridiani Planum) al terreno pallidamente arancio-giallo. E questa è la prima immagine "colorata"! Chissà le altre...

Caption NASA:"This image, one of the first captured by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, shows the vast plains of the northern polar region of Mars. The flat landscape is strewn with tiny pebbles and shows polygonal cracking, a pattern seen widely in Martian high latitudes and also observed in permafrost terrains on Earth. The polygonal cracking is believed to have resulted from seasonal freezing and thawing of surface ice.

Phoenix touched down on the Red Planet at 4:53 p.m. Pacific Time (7:53 p.m. Eastern Time), May 25, 2008, in an arctic region called Vastitas Borealis, at 68° North Latitude and 234° East Longitude.

This is an approximate-color image taken shortly after landing by the spacecraft's Surface Stereo Imager, inferred from two color filters, a violet, 450-nanometer filter and an infrared, 750-nanometer filter".