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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-25-09 01:54 PM
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Mars - Columbia Hills Flyover 2.0
Edited on Fri Sep-25-09 01:54 PM by pokerfan
September 23rd, 2009

Written by Nancy Atkinson

About 18 months ago Doug Ellison from UnmannedSpaceflight.com created a flyover of the Columbia Hills on Mars using data from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and Spirit, the Mars rover. He's now done a 2.0 version to mark Spirit's recent birthday — she's been on Mars for 3 Martian years. Ellison made the skies a little hazier to mark the moderate dust storm that occurred recently and put Spirit in her current predicament, stuck in the sandy soil near Home Plate. Additionally, he added music and an intro credit page to avoid it being badly credited, (which happened when it was posted on Astronomy Picture of the Day in May of 2008) as well as a map at the end to show where Spirit has been all this time. If you saw the first version, this one is even better. If you haven't seen it before, prepare to be amazed

http://www.universetoday.com/2009/09/23/columbia-hills-flyover-2-0-awesome-meridiani-panoramas/
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Staph Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-25-09 02:03 PM
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1. Wow!
Just . . . wow!
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byronius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-26-09 03:37 AM
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2. Wow is right.
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Greyskye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-26-09 10:21 AM
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3. Just watched it three times in a row.

Incredible.
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