Athabasca Valles - HiRISE DEM Animation

[R0b0R0bb]

100% their was water their at some point. You can distinctly see.

[pcfix411]

I watched and enjoyed the video

[jpmorgan187]

Spectacular! I'd much rather see NASA spend money on robotic exploration that making bases on the Moon.

[sirachman]

@jpmorgan187 Well since the moon mission isn't getting the funding it needs it looks like you are getting your wish. That and private industry is going to move forward to cheapen access to the space station and LEO in general.

[4Dmetricology]

what are the arrow straight linear impressions from? (ie at 0:07 left side parallel to screen edge, and line through the crater at end of vid) These would be be many miles long, and as such not rolling ejecta. So what is?

[mason4300]

Probably has something to do with how the data is collected and stitched together, just like panorama images that aren't absolutely perfect at the edges.

[unmannedspaceflight]

It's an artifact of the camera (which has 10 overlapping CCD's) and the DTM generating process.

[systat]

Would it be hard to write this in direct3d or opengl so that it's interactive, and that user can "fly" wherever he wants?

[4Dmetricology]

@unmannedspaceflight

thnx 4 reply

[needle11]

@4Dmetricology - it's quite obvious that those straight linear impressions are remnants of an ancient martian turbo skate park. they used plasma drive warp modified field generators to power their skateboards-everyone knows that!

gov't, religion and the illuminati have been hiding this truth from the masses for 1,000's of years- to enslave us all -you'll see, dec 21, 2012 the antichrist disguised as a reptillian angel will beam up what's left of mankind to be drones, mining helium 3 on the moon

[zazey]

Great!

[ogl765]

Wow! Great work. The detail is amazing for a fly through. You can see some of the buried channels out there near Cerberus.