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Mars' Hebes Chasma Monday, April 07, 2008 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Picture Of The Day >> Space
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| The European Space Agency's Mars Express Orbiter recently took 3D, high-quality photos of Mars. Using its high advanced stereo camera, with a resolution of up to 15 meters per pixel, the orbiter captured images of Hebes Chasma, a strange mountain region nested inside a canyon, with channel-like fingers reaching out into the Martian landscape. | ||||||||||
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Hebes Chasma is a prominent landmark on Mars, just north of the huge Valles Marineris system (the "Grand Canyon of Mars"). The European Space Agency (ESA) described it as "an enclosed trough, with a high, flat-top mountain range right in the center." The central mountain ascends to the same level as the surrounding plains, and at several places the canyon is over 8 km deep; for comparison, the Grand Canyon is only 1.6 km deep. ESA's Mars Express, which has a high resolution stereo camera (HRSC), is currently in orbit around the Red Planet. Its mission is to take photographs of the planet. Some of the photographs are in full color, some are three-dimensional, and all are high-resolution (up to 2 meters-per pixel resolution in selected areas). At each orbital pass, the camera takes an image. Its design allows the combination of images, even when they are of different resolutions. By imaging the landscape at three different wavelengths, a stereoscopic (3D) view of Mars is created, and observers can see for the first time how the Hebes Chasma Canyon looks from different angles in high-resolution 3D. There is evidence to suggest that liquid water once flowed in the canyon, possibly creating a vast mote around the mountain. Assuming a stream of water once existed, when the canyon was full of water, the mountain's top was isolated. The idea of organic-based life on Mars has excited numerous sci-fi authors, and the evidence of water is inflaming the imagination of ESA researchers, as it may lead to the discovery of ancient life forms on the Mars. TFOT reported on the first conclusive evidence for water on an extrasolar planet, a discovery made by French scientists using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. TFOT has also covered the launches of the STS-122 Atlantis and the STS-123 Endeavour, and the discovery of an asteroid heading towards Mars. For more information about these new photos, see ESA's website. |
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| The difference between a mote in your eye and a moat around a castle? | |||
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hebes chasma is occupied by the acient mayan culture that visited earth 13000yrs ago and i can proof it just look at the water its 68deg in photo satt dish in photo. |
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get richard hoaglund to look at this photo and contact me at packermike2008@gmail.com to do a story about this.it will go worldwide. |
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look at shaded area near top front.see a crack left side zoom in 175%see 300ft white dish looking up.Mayan Advanced research center looking at us.No Joke here. |
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HEBES is 55ml.x20ml 9841ft high it could easily sustain 10mil.people they have corn silos and a huge bld.where they grow fish. |
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Hebes Chasma is not the only occupied site Ma-Adim-Vallias is also occupied with a tube transit system in photo to travel on when its cold outside believe it or not. |
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The chinese should think about landing a rover on hebes.The mayans have many chinese art pieces on hebes.The mayans admire chinese and i can prove it. |
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Land the space station on the moon.Its that easy.Mars has occupied buildings on hebes chasma nobody cares.300ft.satt.dish who cares packermike2008@gmail.com |
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All the important photos of hebes have been sent to Andrew Basiago at project peg.mars.com on nov.10&11.Now maybe the story of Hebes is out. |
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spend some time looking at these amazing daily photos of mars and click on the rss feed in lower l. corner.you can see that all of mars is occupied. |
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facebook has the proof if you go to mike lebrasseur-packermike2008@gmail.com you can see for yourself-water-2spacecraft-stadium-solar pannel ect ect ect.please look. |