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Astronomy Picture of the Day
NASA ^ | 4/21/07 | Patrick Vantuyne

Posted on 04/21/2007 4:33:57 AM PDT by sig226

3D Face on Mars
Credit:
NASA, MRO, MGS, Stereo Anaglyph: Patrick Vantuyne

Explanation: Get out your red/blue glasses and gaze down on this weathered mesa on Mars. Of course, described as a rock formation which resembles a human head in a 1976 NASA press release, this mesa is also famous as the Face on Mars. The sharp stereo image was created by combining high resolution pictures from cameras on two different spacecraft in Mars orbit - Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and Mars Global surveyor. It shows rugged details of the approximately 2 kilometer wide, isolated hill - similar to mesa landforms on planet Earth - rising some 240 meters above the plains of the martian Cydonia region. This remarkable 3D view exaggerates the hill's vertical dimensions.


TOPICS: Astronomy Picture of the Day
KEYWORDS: apod; faceonmars; hoagland; mars

1 posted on 04/21/2007 4:33:59 AM PDT by sig226
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2 posted on 04/21/2007 4:35:02 AM PDT by sig226 (Where did my tag line go?)
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To: sig226
IB4P!

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3 posted on 04/21/2007 4:35:04 AM PDT by Lurker (Comparing 'moderate' islam to 'extremist' islam is like comparing small pox to plague.)
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To: sig226

My glasses fell apart a short while ago.


4 posted on 04/21/2007 4:37:18 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. Once an Eagle..... Always an Eagle)
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To: bert

Click on the image - you can get new ones. :)


5 posted on 04/21/2007 4:58:29 AM PDT by sig226 (Where did my tag line go?)
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To: sig226

6 posted on 04/21/2007 6:41:08 AM PDT by alicewonders (I like Duncan Hunter for President in 2008!)
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To: sig226

Paging Mr. Richard C. Hoagland, your face needs restoration.


7 posted on 04/21/2007 6:47:15 AM PDT by Enterprise (I can't talk about liberals anymore because some of the words will get me sent to rehab.)
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To: sig226

from the link off your pic, sounds like a good deal if one is so inclined:

To get 3 FREE pair of Deep Vision 3D glasses:

SEND:
Your Name and FULL address
and $2.00 ( two dollars ) US money
( to cover postage and handling, $3.00 outside USA )

TO:
Deep Vision 3D
PO Box 38386
Hollywood, CA 90038 USA


8 posted on 04/21/2007 8:20:47 AM PDT by fnord (If gun owners, pot smokers, and poker players start a political party, they'd never lose an election)
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