A 3D Landscape on Mars

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"OK, it's time to look silly in your red-blue glasses again!"

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Planetary Society Weblog Download time: Jul 12 2010 12:24 PM ET

OK, it's time to look silly in your red-blue glasses again! When Tanya Harrison sent me those awesome 3D views of Olympica Fossae from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's CTX camera, she sent me two other sets of 3D landscapes on Mars. Here are some 3D views of some seriously deep holes in the ground in Cerberus Fossae, Mars.

First, the context photo. We're looking at an unnamed crater about 35 kilometers in diameter, and there are two parallel canyons cutting it: one deep, branched one that cuts off its southern edge, and one smaller, narrower one in the crater's center. These are just a tiny piece of the Cerberus Fossae, which stretch hundreds of kilometers across Mars, cutting lots of other craters.…

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