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"If the organizers of Mars One – the project to establish a permanent human settlement on Mars – needs something to help bring up their recruitment numbers, this could be it. New photos from the Red Planet show that the Martian surface is dotted with mysterious blue pools and lagoons. If they’re filled with water or some other non-lethal but refreshing liquid, Mars could be the perfect place for extra-terrestrial swimmers, sunbathers and backyard party lovers.

The images were taken in November 2014 by the Mars Express’s High Resolution Stereo Camera and show the Arabia Terra region which is covered with craters of varying sizes, shapes and depths. A number of the craters show what appear to be blue pools that are in sharp contrast to the reddish surface around them. Is this the evidence we’ve been looking for of water on the surface of Mars?"===http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2015/06/my...e-of-mars/

False blue applied to dark areas via image scanning process or not, doesn't look like the kind of South Pacific paradise that either a stranded Jean Simmons / Donald Houston or a Brooke Shields / Christopher Atkins would favor growing up in.