Candor Chasma animation using HiRISE DTM

This is an animation flying over southwest Candor Chasma on Mars. It was created from NASA's HiRISE DTM and image data.

The spatial resolution is 1 meter for the altimetry data and 0.25 meters for the image data.

There is no vertical exageration.

The animation was created using Mars Explorer and was captured in realtime.

Data credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

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[jeo koeoekdss]

i will volunteer to go, even if it is a one way trip. i will go

[MrFiale]

What causes the ladder like impressions on the rock/soil that are appearing everywhere ?

Surely we can find people to go there - I would, give me food, water, and a small bio pod with some plants and I'll give it a go. Worst case scenario I die. Maybe I could live long enough to say "yep it's rocky" or a little longer to do something useful.

[MrAndersohn]

Excellent video, thanks for sharing !

[rasputinbot]

This is amazing thankyou

[Hypergalactica]

It would do wonders for NASA's PR (and James Cameron) if they sent some helium balloons carrying IMAX 3D cameras to places like this. It would no longer by a dot in the sky; it would be another world, one within our reach. Humans on Mars by 2031!

[12bogart12]

Great stuff! Having tried to create 3D data from HiRISE I can appreciate how much work this must have been.

[Hermógenes Vasconcelos]

WOOOWWWW

[MrSpaceartist]

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[kam75]

..no air..no sound...

[kam75]

..Google HiRise and get all the images from high rez camera in orbit,good stuff.

[kam75]

..some are dunes and others are collapsed lava tubes from that I've read.

[mmariposass21]

preciosooooo