Colorized versions of the screen captures of @NASAPersevere's first images after its successful landing on Mars #CountdownToMars 
I've got some Mars color presets in Photoshop to make greyscale images into something sort of like natural lighting, so I just applied them here to the screen shots.
That little cross thing in the first picture near the top was a cursor on the screen where the image was displayed in JPL mission control.
I'm thinking that the cloudy shapes at the top of the images in the distance are outward-billowing dust clouds from the landing itself, considering retrorockets aboard the sky crane were used during the lowering of the rover and jettison of the crane itself.
The colorization from monochrome to RGB color is *not* exact by any means, but it gets you into the neighborhood of very general natural color on Mars as our eyes might see it. This was based partly on work by Don Davis, seen here donaldedavis.com/PARTS/MARSCLRS….
The downsampled versions of the first Perseverance hazcam images are now on the mission's shiny new raw image page. Higher-res images should be coming in soon. mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multi…
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