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desperanceSo we know that the Martian sky looks kinda tawny, because we have seen that in photographs. Yay photographs. (I have no idea whether science had in fact predicted this, or settled for explaining it afterwards; nor indeed what the science is, that makes it so. I should probably ask someone, come to think.)
But: if we imagined open water beneath a Martian sky - say canals, broad enough that you wouldn't always see one bank from the other - then what colour would the water look? Either as you rode upon it, or else from a distance, or from the airships undoubtedly passing overhead...? I know that here on Earth water and sky look blue for different reasons, to do with absorption and scattering and so forth, but transferring that to Mars is outside my comfort-zone...
But: if we imagined open water beneath a Martian sky - say canals, broad enough that you wouldn't always see one bank from the other - then what colour would the water look? Either as you rode upon it, or else from a distance, or from the airships undoubtedly passing overhead...? I know that here on Earth water and sky look blue for different reasons, to do with absorption and scattering and so forth, but transferring that to Mars is outside my comfort-zone...