But blue and purple Mars is not, despite what the main photo of this piece might have you believe. You’re looking at an image captured by the HiRISE orbital camera back in January this year ...

The planet is vast different from others because not only does it rotate in the opposite direction that most planets do, its equator is at a 97 degree angle to its orbit.

But one almost never gets to see other colors on the surface, except, perhaps, at the landing site for the Chinese Tianwen-1 mission, from where we were treated with some shades of blue not long ago.

NASA Photos From Mars Curiosity Rover Reveal Red Planet is Also Green and Purple. Published Nov 02, 2017 at 9:35 AM EDT Updated Nov 15, 2017 at 6:04 PM EST.

Earth is so beautiful in pictures taken from space. A blue globe with white clouds, a hint of green. That green is the sort of thing that astronomers need to look for if they want to detect life ...

The lush green planet that we call home may have actually looked purple in its earliest days, according to the “Purple Earth hypothesis.” No, this doesn’t mean there were purple trees or ...