3D Lava Falls of Mars
Explanation:
Get out your
red/cyan glasses
and gaze across lava falls of Mars.
The stereo anaglyph
was created by combining two images
recorded by the HiRISE camera onboard Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
The multi-level falls
were created as flowing lava breached sections of
the northern rim of a 30-kilometer diameter martian crater,
located in the western part of the Red Planet's volcanic
Tharsis region.
As the molten lava
cascaded down the crater wall and terraces
to reach the crater floor it left the distinctly rough, fan-shaped
flows on the steeper slopes.
North is up and the breathtaking 3D view is 5 kilometers wide.
Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell
(USRA)
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& Michigan Tech. U.
