19.2.08

Across the Martian Canyon

Image source with larger version
Credit: ESA/ DLR/ FU Berlin (G. Neukum)


Europe's Mars Express captured the original version of this image of Candor Chasma, one small branch of the enormous Valles Marineris, with its High Resolution Stereo Camera. A stereoscopic image contains the necessary information to simulate an entirely different perspective, as above. You can see a number of different views of Candor Chasma here.

3 comments:

Zhoen said...

That looks just like some of the uplifted and eroded features in this part of the world.

mark drago said...

i wouldn't mind going there--for a little while, anyway

Anonymous said...

Rather reminds me of our Grand Canyon - except with no railings, and fewer tourists, of course :)