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Subject Could there be Grass on the Surface of MARS!?!?

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Original Message Yesterday, after a 3-year, 21-kilometer journey at top speeds of less than 0.2 kilometer per hour, the Opportunity rover finally arrived at Mars's Endeavour crater. The intrepid explorer had already poked into 11 craters, the largest 750-meter-wide, 70-meter-deep Victoria...

Blah Blah Blah and yata yata yata can be read in full at:
[link to news.sciencemag.org]

Take what you want from it but it's about NASA something or other.

What I'm posting about is the photoshopt picture. NASA sure is getting lazy about releasing photos when an amateur like me can do this. I really don't know much about editing photos but I did what I thought I really saw when I saw this rover photo.
Granted I do believe Mars is covered with plants and shrubs and maybe even trees just removed by NASA.
There's been some really good threads about it right here on GLP.

I know someone here on GLP can probably post better renditions then this one too and I thank you in advance for doing so.

Anyways here's the original photo:

IMAGE ( [link to i968.photobucket.com] )

And here's the one I adjusted by adding some green and darkening the image to take away some of the red and lighting that I think is added.

IMAGE ( [link to i968.photobucket.com] )

And NASA released a "False Color" image here:

[link to www.nasa.gov]

And as a side note.
It sure does look like an old dump. One like I've seen before. I've zoomed in on the debris and saw what looks like cans and shit eroding out of the ground or some other junk. Some strange looking disc or something right in front of the center rock.
But like I said, I'm ans amateur. I bet someone with a better knowlege can do better. Interesting stuff in these photos.

Enjoy

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