Andrea Gianopoulos, Author at ¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ Science news and science articles from ¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:01:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 242057827 Zooming in on Mars in glorious 3D /article/1932981-zooming-in-on-mars-in-glorious-3d/?utm_campaign=RSS|NSNS&utm_content=currents&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=NSNS Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:01:00 +0000 http://dn16852 Dark, crescent-shaped dunes in a crater called Herschel show that the wind there blows mainly from north to south
Dark, crescent-shaped dunes in a crater called Herschel show that the wind there blows mainly from north to south
(Image: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona)

Get out your 3D spectacles! Hundreds of new red-cyan anaglyph images of Mars were recently released by the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). Although other Mars missions have taken 3D images, HiRISE is the most powerful camera to ever orbit another planet. It resolves features as small as 1 metre across – roughly the scale of a person.

Click here to see five of the most striking images.

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