Why do Mars surface images have orange sky?

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Well Ive been seeing some images of the Mars surface and I noticed that their sky is not dark with stars like Moon, instead it is orange-ish like [here](https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/images/index.html)

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Mars sky diffraction during the day would appear closer to yellow on its own given the composition of its atmosphere, however Mars is DRY. Dry means dusty. Mars dust is red. Red dust plus yellow atmosphere= orange sky

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