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Geology Picture of the Week, October 5-11, 2003:
The World's Deepest Chasms
Visible Earth ^
| July 17, 2000
| NASA
Posted on 10/08/2003 9:51:00 AM PDT by cogitator
Even though this image isn't "new", I found it while on a quick quest to determine the world's second-deepest canyon (I'm making a list of the world's geological seconds, with the basic presumption that they are are lot less well known that the world's firsts). It all started with that Victoria Falls picture last week. Anyway, the image below is nice, but what you really need to do is get a pair of red-blue 3-D glasses and go to the Web site below the image, and look at the 3-D anaglyph image with the 3-D glasses. Wow.
Both the world's deepest canyon (of the Rio Cotahuasi) and second-deepest canyon (of the Rio Colca) are located in Peru. They are both about twice as deep as the Grand Canyon in Arizona.
Deepest Canyons of the Andes
TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Outdoors; Science
KEYWORDS: canyons; deepest; peru
And people say that erosion is a bad thing.
Also, some nice new Kilauea images and videos at the HVO Kilauea Web site:
Kilauea eruption update
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10/08/2003 9:51:02 AM PDT
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10/08/2003 9:52:26 AM PDT
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posted on
10/08/2003 9:54:13 AM PDT
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cogitator
To: cogitator
Gorges.
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posted on
10/08/2003 10:04:44 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(I am the extended middle finger in the fist of life.)
To: cogitator
And people say that erosion is a bad thing.I would say that erosion is the kindest thing that could happen to some of the landscapes I've been in.
;^)
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10/08/2003 10:30:57 AM PDT
by
headsonpikes
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To: cogitator
SPOTREP - GEOLOGY
To: cogitator
I wonder if anyone has base-jumped those.
To: cogitator
That 3-D image is mind blowing!
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posted on
10/08/2003 8:46:54 PM PDT
by
Lady Jag
(Googolplex Star Thinker of the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity)
To: sciencediet
That 3-D image is mind blowing!Yeah, it's one of the best examples of remote sensing 3-D that I've seen.
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posted on
10/09/2003 8:20:59 AM PDT
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cogitator
To: JethroHathAWay
I wonder if anyone has base-jumped those.No idea, but apparently the whitewater in either one is pretty rugged.
To: cogitator
Have you searched that site for anaglyphs? I just did and there are a lot of them that are quite incredible. I've never seen such 3-D resolution.
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posted on
10/09/2003 2:04:26 PM PDT
by
Lady Jag
(Googolplex Star Thinker of the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity)
To: sciencediet
Have you searched that site for anaglyphs?Actually, I searched it yesterday after replying to you. Even though there are some nice ones (the pali over Honolulu is pretty good), I didn't find any other truly outstanding ones.
You might want to try this site, too:
http://www.nasm.si.edu/apollo30th/moontheater/anaglyph.html
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