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I believe the rather dull reddish pics are as received. One of the things NASA do is white balance the pics so that the look like they would in sunlight on Earth. This is done to aid identification.

Some good pics, and an example of white balance at:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/multimedia/gallery-indexEvents.html