The power of HiRISE |
The power of HiRISE |
Oct 9 2008, 08:04 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Busy preparing a new Outreach talk here, and have been trying to find some images to illustrate the "power" of HiRISE for a non-technical audience. Playing about with - sorry, carefully looking at the images on - the addictive Mars Global Data site I found a cute landslide on Xanthe Terra that does the trick nicely. Using the IAS Viewer you can zoom in on the boulders carried down the slope by the landslide and even see cracks and splits in them... unbelievable...!
Anyone else got any fave examples? -------------------- |
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Dec 21 2008, 10:39 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 710 Joined: 28-September 04 Member No.: 99 |
Easily impressed huh? Dust, dust and... more dust.
To me this terrain looks much more diverse, interesting and....beautiful: http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/PSP_009537_2045 Follow that riverbed at 50% zoom and be amazed. And one weird crater: http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/PSP_009320_2150 |
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Dec 22 2008, 08:36 AM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Easily impressed huh? Dust, dust and... more dust. I'm impressed by the thought of all that dust sliding down those slopes, yeah, cos I can imagine being there and seeing, what, dozens of avalanches of dark dust and stones hissing and slithering down the sides of the ridges or plateaus or whatever they are all around me, triggered by - what? Gentle rumblings in the rocks beneath the mighty volcanos that lie to the east? A tremor running through ground after a faraway impact? Sometimes it's what you can't see that makes a martian landscape magical. Love your weirdy crater tho - present for you OWW's Crater -------------------- |
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Dec 22 2008, 11:44 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 710 Joined: 28-September 04 Member No.: 99 |
Sometimes it's what you can't see that makes a martian landscape magical. Then you're gonna Love this one: http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/PSP_004390_1035 Here's another strange crater.... I THINK it was a crater once. http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/PSP_010206_1975 |
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