Fly over Mars!

Bad Astronomy
By Phil Plait
Mar 13, 2010 12:30 AMNov 19, 2019 9:18 PM

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Via Emily at the Planetary Society blog comes this amazing animation, a three-dimensional flyover of Candor Chasma on Mars generated using HiRISE data. Holy cow. And the timing of this video... will some kid in middle school watch this video, wonder what it would be like to really do this, and then, in 25 more years, be sitting at the stick of a Martian flyer?

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