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General Discussion => Science & Nature => Topic started by: sam on March 23, 2010, 02:58

Title: Amazing Mars Flyover Videos Keep Getting Better and Better
Post by: sam on March 23, 2010, 02:58

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How do the folks from UnmannedSpaceflight do it?!! They keep surpassing themselves with every new flyover video! We've posted some Mars flyover videos before, created by UMSF founder Doug Ellison. Now, colleague Adrian Lark — who has been working on creating animations and enhanced images with data from the Mars missions for several years — has produced new features on the videos. This latest, which flies you around the scarp surrounding Olympus Mons has speed and height information as well as a context map included on the video. "The data I am using is generated from the HiRISE camera onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter," Adrian told me. "The elevation data has a spatial resolution of 1 meter and the image data has a spatial resolution of 25 centimeters. There is no vertical exaggeration in any of the videos."

http://www.universetoday.com/2010/03/22/amazing-mars-flyover-videos-keep-getting-better-and-better/

Title: Re: Amazing Mars Flyover Videos Keep Getting Better and Better
Post by: Clive on March 23, 2010, 09:03

Utterly incredible video footage.  We will get the same for other solar system objects one day.  8-)

Title: Re: Amazing Mars Flyover Videos Keep Getting Better and Better
Post by: sam on March 23, 2010, 13:58

yeah!