I can see how it's a different view of the same scene, and have circled the features that match up. Interestingly, the level has changed a bit since the older picture.

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Interesting how less faded it looks now.

Sometimes on Earth, when there are fires going, or in the wake of a dust-spewing volcano, there is enough red-scattering dust in the air to recreate the look of Mars. The atmosphere does scatter a lot of blue light, but not all blue light. Just enough so the sun looks slightly yellow. The dust so effectively takes care of the red light that what blue light does come down from the sun is the only light that can be seen clearly. The dust doesn't necessarily have to be all around the viewer. If the dust is far off toward the west or east, the sun can be behind it without the viewer necessarily noticing anything wrong - except the sun turning blue.

When The Sun Turns Blue

What sort of gases would be able to filter our sun's light into blue?

Earth's atmosphere preferentially scatters blue light through a process called Raleigh scattering. The color of the sky (on any planet) is mostly dependent upon the size of the molecules that make up the atmosphere as well as how thick the atmosphere is. On Earth at sunset the sky looks more red because light from the Sun has to travel through significantly more air to get to us, and the blue light is scattered so much along the way that it becomes so diffuse we can't see it anymore. Mars, on the other hand, has a lot of dust in the atmosphere which increases the average size of the particles in the air, so the scattered light is shifted a bit to the red. But there's also a whole lot less air on Mars to scatter light from the Sun, so the true color of the sky is reddish-grayish-blueish. This is approximate true color.

Interestingly, sulfate particles have been demonstrated on Earth to turn the sky even brighter blue. So perhaps the increased volcanism on Venus would explain the bluer sky on a hypothetical post-Traveler "jungly" Venus.