Mars Express 3D Image Released

zoney_ie writes "As reported in BBC News Online, ESA (European Space Agency) have released an image of the surface of Mars, captured in 3D and full colour. Europe's Mars Express orbiter has been taking pictures of the Martian surface at down to 10m resolution. The mission will result in Mars being more carefully mapped than Earth has been to date! Full size image available on ESA's Mars Express Website."

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Certainly the earth has been better mapped

[HMA2000]

I am pretty sure that many top secret government organizations have mapped the earth at a better resolution than 10 meters.

Or did you think the US bombed the chinense embassy on accident?

So, any chance they'll release a complete map...

[Anonymous Coward]

a la NASA's "Blue Marble" images for Earth?

That's one thing NASA has over ESA - they release a lot more material into the public domain... and this time I'm actually paying for it with my tax Euros, so I say they should release the images to us all :)

Re:New game for Europeans:

[RetroGeek]

I'm pretty sure that the beagle was smaller than that

But not the crater! Depending on the terminal velocity it could be larger than 30 feet (imperial conversion done for the metrically challenged).

Will the full archive be available?

[ZPO]

If the full georegistered archive is made available I'll be pleased. Otherwise it will be just another data-source for ESA to make money off of.

Given all the taxes paid citizens of the ESA member nations it had sure better be made publicly available.

Re:Earth to date?

[zeux]

There's no need to map earth at 1 foot resolution near real time. It's just so much data that you wouldn't have the time to analyse it until it gets outdated (continental drift, erosion, etc).

Instead they do have 1 foot resolution but they use it only on certains parts of the world and only when they need it, Iraq for instance.