Fly over Mars!

Via Emily at the Planetary Society blog comes this amazing animation, a three-dimensional flyover of Candor Chasma on Mars generated using HiRISE data.

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Amazing, make sure to watch in HD!

Originally posted by hippomchippo
Amazing, make sure to watch in HD!

Beware it takes a fair while to download the whole video. But well worth it!

awesome video
looks like ur flying some spacecraft right
off the surface. worth a look folks

A feeling deep inside my being desperately wants to go to Mars, and seeing this video only makes that feeling stronger!

For as long as I can remember Mars has had a special meaning to me - but I can never quite be sure what that feeling is or why I have it.

I also know I want to go there, but not why.

One day I will make it there, but seeing this video makes me more resolved to get there sooner.

boo, i've seen better footage in Total Recall

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Yeah CGI looks more real and smoother, but this is the real martian landscape, and you can't beat that.

Hopefully later probes will take HD video whilst descending thru' the atmosphere. Not sure if humans will make it there for a while though.