Movie: Flight Into Mariner Valley (Valles Marineris, Mars)

Presented by

Phil Christensen
Mars Space Flight Facility,
Arizona State University.

This video created by JPL's Solar System Visualization Team uses real scientific data from Odyssey's Thermal Emission Imaging System's Infrared Camera to simulate a flight from a few hundred feet above the largest canyon in the solar system, Valles Marineris on Mars. The image data was draped over topography information from the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter on the Mars Global Surveyor orbiter. Every canyon wall and curve in the animation is rendered from real data from Mars except for the simulated atmosphere, dust devils, and dust storms.

Credit: NASA/JPL/Arizona State University, Eric M. De Jong, Zareh Gorjian, Koji Kuramura, Michael Stetson, Rob Baldwin, Jason Craig.

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