Athabasca Valles - HiRISE DEM Animation

Using HiRISE Data - http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/dtm/dtm.php?ID=PSP_002661_1895 - an animation over features of Athabasca Valles . The terrain has accurate vertical scaling and is not exaggerated. Data courtesy of HiRISE on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, NASA / JPL / AU : http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mro/

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• HiRISE
• NASA
• JPL
• MRO
• terrain
• mars
• topography

[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?

[unmannedspaceflight]

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

[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.

[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

[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]

@unmannedspaceflight

thnx 4 reply

[R0b0R0bb]

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

[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?

[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.