Martian mesa… in 3D! (get your red/blue glasses to make this work!)


	Martian mesa… in 3D! (get your red/blue glasses to make this work!)

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7-28-2009 10:51 AM

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cool stuff, nasa, pareidolia, pretty pictures

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7-28-2009 10:58 AM

Kelika

I dug around in my desk at work (don't ask) and found my 3D glasses. This is a great find! Thanks!

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<TABLE><TBODY><TR><TD align="center"><A target="_blank" href="http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/media/images/PSP_008690_2075_PSP_007688_2075_RED.cutout.png"><IMG src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3484/3729911271_e2baf060bd_o.jpg" /></A></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></CENTER></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/07/28/martian-mesa-in-3d/"><P>[Click to embiggen.]</p> <P>Obviously, you need red/blue glasses to make this work. If you don’t have any, I suggest you find some (lots of places sell them online), and then search this blog for the word "anaglyph", which will make you very happy.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/07/28/martian-mesa-in-3d/"><P>How cool is this? You can see that the top of the mesa is substantially above the rest of the surface, and the shallow depressions in the top are obvious… and, of course, provide us with a whimsical example of <A target="_blank" href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/category/pareidolia/">pareidolia</A>. The sand dunes rippling across even look a little bit like eyelashes.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/07/28/martian-mesa-in-3d/">Man, I love stuff like this. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/07/28/martian-mesa-in-3d/"> <A target="_blank" href="http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/anaglyph/">HiRISE has an incredible gallery of 3D anaglyphs</A> </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/07/28/martian-mesa-in-3d/">You can find details about the picture <A target="_blank" href="http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/PSP_007688_2075">on the HiRISE site</A> as well as wider field of view pictures that put it into context.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/FF9EB562-BC70-40F4-829A-F3A170F1EEBA/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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