Mar 24, 2017
Watching the clouds go by on #Mars. Check out these atmospheric ripples!
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Watching the clouds go by on #Mars. Check out these atmospheric ripples!
The HiRise camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Spacecraft has been taking pictures of the planet’s surface for more than a decade now. At its highest resolution, it can see features less than a meter across - the scale of geologic units, sand dunes, and boulders. It can also be targeted by request from literally anyone, if you had a site you wanted to image. Using the publicly available photographs from HiRISE, this video is stitched together as a flight over Mars, including a glimpse of its moon Phobos.
Explore the craters, mountains, and valley networks of the red planet. Somehow both geologic and yet different from what we’re used to.