Here's a short video showing that alien world of red dust.
No, wait. Those images are from Sydney, Australia, this past week, when an enormous dust storm 310 miles wide and 620 miles long blew through the eastern part of the country. The storm was visible from space, if not from Mars.
Here's the real (movie version) Red Planet, in a short video.
(Red Planet promotional video)
And here's a look at the real (real) red planet; the video is compiled from data collected by the Mars Reconnaisance Orbiter and Spirit.
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Reflect Orbital Sunlight On Demand
'I don't have to tell you about the seven two-mile-diameter orbital mirrors that circulate around the satellite, making it habitable.'
Boy Makes Biomimetic Turtle Robot
't came out into plain view. Darkington glimpsed a slim body and six short legs of articulated dull metal.'
Elon Musk Wants Data Centers In Space
'Internally it’s made up of millions of components, but the most important ones are the thinking and memory parts of the Mind proper.'
Origin F1 Humanoid Robot's Facial Skin
'I could look down at that face of carefully molded synthetic rubber, tinted the exact shade of the doctor's living flesh.'