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3D Face on Mars
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[z]Barbara Harris
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22.04.2007 00:00
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3D Face on Mars
Explanation: Get out your
red/blue glasses and gaze down on this
weathered mesa
on Mars. Of course, described as a rock formation which resembles a human head in a
1976 NASA press release
, this mesa is also famous as the
Face on Mars
. The sharp
stereo
image was created by combining high resolution pictures from cameras on two different spacecraft in Mars orbit -
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
and
Mars Global surveyor
. It shows
rugged details
of the approximately 2 kilometer wide, isolated hill - similar to mesa landforms
on planet Earth
- rising some 240 meters above the plains of the martian
Cydonia region
. This remarkable 3D view exaggerates the hill's vertical dimensions.
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