Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Mars as you've never seen it before: The colossal ice walls that show another side of the Red Planet

"It looks like a film maker's apocalyptic vision of Earth following a devastating natural disaster.
But this colossal ice formation is actually a portion of the wall terraces of a huge crater on Mars.
Approximately 37 miles in diameter, a section of the Mojave Crater in the planet's Xanthe Terra region has been digitally mapped by NASA scientists.
The result is this digital terrain model that was generated from a stereo pair of images and offers a synthesized, oblique view of a 2.5-mile portion of the crater's wall terraces."

The reason I decided to highlight the fact this is a digital terrain model is due to the anti-science comments following the article. Seems none of those people believe too much in technology to think this might be real representation of the actual terrain. Thank God they have the Internet to post their anti-science rants..

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