Ever wondered what it feels like to fly over an alien landscape? Check out the Mars3D channel on YouTube, where you'll find all sorts of simulated flyovers of landmarks on Mars from digital elevation models produced by the HiRISE camera on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Here's a cool one showing Zumba Crater. It's important to get a sense of scale before diving in though - in this simulation while the camera looks like it is traveling slowly, it's actually 'moving' at around 160k/hr (100mph). The crater itself is approximately 600 meters deep and 3km in diameter:
via Daily Grail Frontpage | TDG - Science, Magick, Myth and History.
These are awesome. You are in a jet flying over another world! I especially like how they digitally removed every trace of the ancient Martian ruins ... or did they? ;-)
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How accurate is this color?
I've heard the rumor that the Martian sky is really blue... That NASA shifts it red to hide the fact that ... Uh ... I forget why.
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