2007-10-21 15:02:00 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
a rusty orange colour due to carbon emmisions in upper atmosphere
2007-10-21 15:07:34 · answer #1 · answered by bob 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pink.
On Mars, photographs from both landers (the Viking from 1976-78 and the Pathfinder in 1997) suggested that the sky is always a butterscotch tan color. Mars appears to have a permanent haze of dust, which remains suspended in the air after duststorms. The dust is the mineral "limonite," a brown iron oxide, the same mineral that forms most of the Martian surface. The sky is not blue as on Earth because Martian air is extremely thin and the limonite particles in the air are large relative to the wavelength of visible light. The reddish particles preferentially absorb blue light and effectively act as mirrors by scattering the remaining wavelengths: the color of the atmosphere is therefore pinkish, like the particles themselves.
2007-10-21 23:02:37 · answer #2 · answered by Lutfor 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
During the day it would be dark towards the zenith (except near the sun where it would be reddish). Due to the atmosphere (as thin as it is) the sky above the horizon would be pinkish (as it appears in images from the Mars rovers).
Night would of course be black, with more stars than are visible on Earth, due to its much thinner atmosphere, and its distance from the sun. Much of the light haze in our skies at night is from sunlight reflecting off dust in the inner solar system (called the zodiac light), and since Mars is further from the sun there will also be correspondingly less zodiac light.
2007-10-21 23:02:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Black. There is little atmosphere to speak of so the diffraction of sunlight caused by our atmosphere doesn't happen.
Sorry. I am wrong. The sky colour varies quite a bit but I guess puke-orange is as close an answer as any.
2007-10-21 22:54:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Orange-ish
2007-10-21 22:09:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's a pale orange in the Rover photos sent back.
2007-10-21 22:10:37 · answer #6 · answered by Derail 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it would be like seeing heaven before dying, it just have to be greater that great, lets just wait a while
2007-10-22 09:18:15 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Black, the same as here on earth. But you would be dead by now. Sorry i am a slow typer!
2007-10-21 22:09:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
At night it would be black with little white dots.
2007-10-23 21:18:31 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This color: http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:sY1_Shy90gADeM:http://chapters.marssociety.org/polska/image001.jpg
2007-10-21 22:12:46 · answer #10 · answered by Kyle 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋