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3D Images Of Valles Marineris

Posted by timothy on from the night-sky dept.

EccentricAnomaly writes: "Adrian Lark and Olivier de Goursac have made some spectacular 3D renderings of the Valles Marineris of Mars from Mars Global Surveyor data. That site is in French, but space.com has a write-up in English. Some of the images are from the bottom of Melas Chasma, which is a possible landing site for the MER rovers in 2003. Adrian Lark has software that you can use to generate your own images with data from MGS's MOLA instrument."

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  1. mediated images by child_of_mercy · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes, they are breathtaking, yes they are very pretty.

    But don't get too carried away, they have been heavily mediated from the raw data to make them look like what their creator wanted (and to some degree what was expected beforehand).

    Thats not to say they're wrong, just don't take them as being canonical.

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  2. Antarctica by child_of_mercy · · Score: 3, Informative

    Don't be so sure.

    Have a look at some of the pictures from central antarctica, which hasn't seen liquid water since the surface was formed.
    Wind erosion can, over time, look a lot like what you associate with water.

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  3. Other Render Sources by taion · · Score: 2, Informative

    Although the first link in the article seems to have been thoroughly Slashdotted,

    the space.com link (http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem /mars_renderings_011204-2.html)

    and the mars3d.co.uk (http://mars3d.co.uk/)

    happen to have some of the images, although not in as high a resolution.

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