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Mars Images
Random Chaos
Actually Carefully-selected Order in disguise
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Here we are...a thread devoted to Mars photos from the twin Rovers that NASA is sending up :)
Biggles, Sanfam, and TV: Could you try and keep this thread limited to post with image links in it? Thanks :)
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Main Mars Rover Site:
[url]http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/home/index.html[/url]
Main Press Image Section:
[url]http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/images.html[/url]
(BTW: The Press section often has images they haven't released elsewhere, or versions of the images that they don't have on their homepage - higher resolution versions!)
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(The following are from the Press Image section)
First Color Photo of Mars from Spirit! 01-06-2004 (8MB)
[url]http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/press/spirit/20040106a/PIA04995.jpg[/url]
(Note: This image was removed from the Mars Rover homepage and relegated to a deeply hidden page within the Press area due becuase of bandwidth issues. Here it is in all it's hidden glory!)
First 3d Stereoscopic Photo of Mars from Spirit. 01-05-2004 (74KB)
[url]http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/press/spirit/20040105a/PIA04993.jpg[/url]
(Note: The Left and Right eye versions are seperately available here: [url]http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/press/spirit/20040105a.html[/url])
(If I feel like it, I might keep updating this post with new images as people post interesting ones)
Biggles, Sanfam, and TV: Could you try and keep this thread limited to post with image links in it? Thanks :)
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Main Mars Rover Site:
[url]http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/home/index.html[/url]
Main Press Image Section:
[url]http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/images.html[/url]
(BTW: The Press section often has images they haven't released elsewhere, or versions of the images that they don't have on their homepage - higher resolution versions!)
---------------------------------
(The following are from the Press Image section)
First Color Photo of Mars from Spirit! 01-06-2004 (8MB)
[url]http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/press/spirit/20040106a/PIA04995.jpg[/url]
(Note: This image was removed from the Mars Rover homepage and relegated to a deeply hidden page within the Press area due becuase of bandwidth issues. Here it is in all it's hidden glory!)
First 3d Stereoscopic Photo of Mars from Spirit. 01-05-2004 (74KB)
[url]http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/press/spirit/20040105a/PIA04993.jpg[/url]
(Note: The Left and Right eye versions are seperately available here: [url]http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/press/spirit/20040105a.html[/url])
(If I feel like it, I might keep updating this post with new images as people post interesting ones)
Comments
other than the 'smoggy' atmosphere, it looks like you could just go for a walk... of course that aint even slightly possible without what would basically ammount to a power armour suit.
reminds me very much of the Gibber dessert in AU. For compariosn I dropped the Martian atmosphere onto the top of a photo of the Gibber Desert. Not a great deal of difference, mostly it seems that the 'brown' atmosphere of Mars both diffuses and slightly tints the light while Terra's light is a little harsher and direct and perhaps 'bluer'.
Not a Block Buster SciFi film in plot and writing, but definately above a B movie... say... an A- heh heh
[url=http://themis.asu.edu/fullimages/20040105a.jpg]Hi Res[/url] version. Notice the dark spots made by dust devils. Looks promising.
I wonder if one of the nearby craters is Sleepy Hollow?
:D
Must be some kind of Jet Stream of some kind that causes that area to get them. Notice to that they originate at the craters. I suspect that it's wind being forced down into the craters, who's rim then causes the circular motion, and eventually the funnels...
Very cool stuff...
;)