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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. wery pritty... by mlk · · Score: 2, Interesting

    As these are generated, I wounder if we could get them in the next version of BattleZone, BZ III fight for Mars (uses real maps of Mars).

    I think it would be cool
    Mlk

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    Wow, I should not post when knackered.
  2. other interesting pictures by NeoTomba · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Mola 3d map:
    http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/gsfc/spacesci/pictures/ mo la/mars3d.htm

    exxagerated altitude 3d renderings, valles marineris:
    http://www.burningpixel.com/galeryim.htm