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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Collection
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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Collection
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3D Face on Mars
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3D Face on Mars
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Get out your red/blue glasses and gaze down on this weathered mesa [ http://en.wikipedia…] on Mars. Of course, described as a rock formation that resembles a human head in a 1976 NASA press release [ http://barsoom.msss…], this mesa is also famous as the Face on Mars [ http://science.nasa…]. The sharp stereo [ http://faxmentis.or…] image was created by combining high resolution pictures from cameras on two different spacecraft in Mars orbit - Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter [ http://hiroc.lpl.ar…diafotizo.php?ID=PSP _003234_2210 ] and Mars Global surveyor [ http://www.msss.com…]. It shows rugged details [ http://www.esa.int/…SEM09F8LURE_0.html ] of the approximately 2 kilometer wide, isolated hill - similar to mesa landforms on planet Earth [ http://www.american…photographs.html ] - rising some 240 meters above the plains of the martian Cydonia region [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…]. This remarkable 3D view exaggerates the hill's vertical dimensions.
Explanation
Get out your red/blue glasses and gaze down on this weathered mesa [ http://en.wikipedia…] on Mars. Of course, described as a rock formation that resembles a human head in a 1976 NASA press release [ http://barsoom.msss…], this mesa is also famous as the Face on Mars [ http://science.nasa…]. The sharp stereo [ http://faxmentis.or…] image was created by combining high resolution pictures from cameras on two different spacecraft in Mars orbit - Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter [ http://hiroc.lpl.ar…diafotizo.php?ID=PSP _003234_2210 ] and Mars Global surveyor [ http://www.msss.com…]. It shows rugged details [ http://www.esa.int/…SEM09F8LURE_0.html ] of the approximately 2 kilometer wide, isolated hill - similar to mesa landforms on planet Earth [ http://www.american…photographs.html ] - rising some 240 meters above the plains of the martian Cydonia region [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…]. This remarkable 3D view exaggerates the hill's vertical dimensions. Explanation
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SPD-APOD-ap070421
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