... Bad Astronomy . ... What Color is Mars? ... Bizarre Image Analysis . ... One image of Mars shows a giant green splotch . Some images show it to have a blue sky, others a red sky, and in yet others the sky is butterscotch. ... When the images from Mars are returned to Earth, and then processed to make a color image, what you are seeing at best is an approximation to what your eye can see. ... When that infrared filter greyscale image is used to construct a color image, the blue tab turns pink. ...