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Mars seen in unprecedented detail (EURO Mars Express)
BBC ^ | 23 January, 2004

Posted on 01/23/2004 6:06:49 AM PST by traumer

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1 posted on 01/23/2004 6:06:49 AM PST by traumer
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2 posted on 01/23/2004 6:36:11 AM PST by scab4faa (Can't sleep.. the clowns will eat me... Can't sleep.. the clowns will eat me... Can't sleep..)
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Bump.
3 posted on 01/28/2004 8:16:03 PM PST by demlosers (<a href="http://www.michaelmoore.com">Miserable Failure</a>)
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Amazing how steep the sides of that caldera are!
4 posted on 01/28/2004 8:22:09 PM PST by Fitzcarraldo
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Barringer Crater

5 posted on 01/28/2004 8:24:27 PM PST by blam
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Amazing how steep the sides of that caldera are!

ATV riders beware!

6 posted on 01/28/2004 8:24:57 PM PST by steve86
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Amazing how steep the sides of that caldera are!

It's an exaggerated 3D effect added in post-processing based on terrain height data. It is not a real photographic image.

8 posted on 01/28/2004 8:50:48 PM PST by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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It's an exaggerated 3D

They do have a stereo camera on board but you are right - anything to "excite the public".

9 posted on 01/28/2004 9:16:00 PM PST by Fitzcarraldo
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To: seamole
Those are heavily retouched photos using other collected data.

If NASA released such photos, they'd be accused of covering up Mars civilization. NM, they already are.
10 posted on 01/28/2004 9:28:45 PM PST by adam_az (Be vewy vewy qwiet, I'm hunting weftists.)
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Watch Mars just miss getting smached by Astriod or trajectories 2003 AK73 planetary encounter circumstances fromJet Propulsion Laboratory

Orbit Visualization Tool

Looks like an Oil Slick on Mars to me.


11 posted on 01/28/2004 9:41:06 PM PST by Major_Risktaker (Oderint dum metuant)
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To: scab4faa
Pretty awsome. Even if "enhanced".

Too bad they don't have any signs of "civilization". Richard C. Hoagland will be dissappointed (after all, its only the Americans that are covering up ancient artifacts on Mars).
12 posted on 01/28/2004 10:29:32 PM PST by Simmy2.5 (Kerry. When you need to katchup...)
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Mars Express arrived at the Red Planet on 25 December. It operates from a polar orbit that takes it between 300 and 11,000 km from the planet's surface.
So, from which altitude were these satelite photos taken ?
14 posted on 08/08/2004 10:04:27 AM PDT by Truth666
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Mars seen in unprecedented detail

Greater detail than actually being on the ground and playing in the dirt?

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15 posted on 08/08/2004 10:08:51 AM PDT by Redcloak (Kids, drugs are bad. Mmmkay?)
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Yeah. Greater detail that this:

A FReepers archive of Mars shots...

(Wish I could remember who gathered this together, so I could give credit)...

16 posted on 08/08/2004 10:13:42 AM PDT by null and void (Who crys for the krill???)
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Judging by the addy, that would be Pharmer.
17 posted on 08/08/2004 10:17:08 AM PDT by Redcloak (Kids, drugs are bad. Mmmkay?)
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*forehead slap* D'oh!


18 posted on 08/08/2004 10:21:19 AM PDT by null and void (Who crys for the krill???)
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ping


19 posted on 08/08/2004 10:21:50 AM PDT by null and void (Who crys for the krill???)
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Looks like the Southwest to me...


20 posted on 08/08/2004 10:22:07 AM PDT by Bob J (Rightalk.com...coming soon!)
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