Morgan Bell3D Images of the Martian surface
December 25th 2008 05:03
"The photos, known as anaglyphs, come from the orbiter's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE, billed as the most powerful camera ever placed in another planet's orbit. "
All you need is a pair of those red & blue glasses - don't have them? Well, they used to give them away for free in cereal boxes, but that went out of style, unfortunately. Now all you get from cereal boxes are mundane cereal recipes or lame crossword puzzles. Where's the love?
Luckily, NASA has a page on 3D glasses, where to buy them, or how to make them.
The images are frightening, but an excellent way to give citizens a chance to appreciate the barren variety of Mars, a planet that symbolized war to the Romans, but looks like it hasn't seen action in millennia. Where are the golden chariots, the fiery arrows, the brass breastplates? If this is the home of a god, he's gotta be bored there.
Here's the image gallery from HiRISE, containing 32 pages of 3D images.
Of course, there are only so many mesas and canyons that you can look at, but if this kind of thing turns your crank, the folks at HiRISE are definitely excited about the features of the planet....
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