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Experience Mars and its stunning mountains, craters,
ancient river beds and lava flows in this newly released 3D Mars video that lets you fly over the Red Planet.
The 3D Mars video was created from images taken
by the European satellite which orbited the red planet about 12,500 times. The
newly released Mars 3D video “provides a richly detailed, three-dimensional
view of the Red Planet,” reported Space.com on Nov.
1, 2013.
"For the first time, we can see Mars spatially — in
three dimensions," said Ralf Jaumann, the project manager for the Mars
Express mission at the German Aerospace Center.
Mars Express is the European Space Agency's first spacecraft
built to explore another planet and the Mars 3D video was produced by the European
Space Agency in joined forces with the German Aerospace Center (DLR).
The Mars Express satellite is equipped with a high-resolution
stereoscopic camera and a mineralogical mapping spectrometer. Nine
light-sensitive detectors aboard Mars Express sweep across the surface of the
planet and can capture sequential images of the red planet from nine different
angles. The data taken from Mars Express is then processed into
three-dimensional images by planetary researchers at the German Aerospace
Center.
