Mars, as abstract art (Dialup warning)

[n2doc]

The Mars HiRISE orbiter has been taking some amazing pics lately.

These are all false color images. Mostly the colors are to delineate mineral or frost regions. But they are pretty, nonetheless. Enjoy!



















More:

http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/nea.php

[beam me up scottie]

1. Beautiful.

The third one is incredible. From the website:

This image shows the central uplift within an impact crater to the west of Nili Fossae. Images of crater central uplifts like this one provide rare views of the rock types that exist miles beneath the modern-day surface of Mars.

After the impact occurred, the crater’s central floor rebounded upward, forming a ring of hills and raising deeply buried rocks up to Martian surface. Infrared spectrometers such as THEMIS and CRISM have found that some of these rocks in the crater’s central uplift contain minerals that are intriguing and atypical for Mars, such as quartz, clays, and other water-bearing silicate minerals.

Thank you for posting them.

k&r

[krispos42]

2. One day...

...we'll be on Mars, living and working there, and every day the colonists there will wake to such spectacularly alien beauty every single day.

*sigh*

Dammit, I was born a hundred years too soon.

[Tikki]

3. Thank You, also....

Sometimes I feel strangely attached to this Science..
Too much Sci-fi?...Maybe not...

Tikki

[n2doc]

4. kick n/t