Mars Approach by wizardofnoz

Terragen • Science/Medical • posted on Sep 01, 2005

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You'll need to view this in clockwise sequence. The terrain is from a MOLA image of Mars (-0.3740 latitude to 118.6885 longitude) imported via 3DEM into Terragen for rendering. The background PW is from an old National Geographic scan image I had. MOLA is the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter, an instrument currently in orbit around Mars on the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft. The instrument transmits infrared laser pulses towards Mars at a rate of 10 Hz and measures the time of flight to determine the range of the MGS spacecraft to the Martian surface. Range measurements have used to construct a precise topographic map of Mars that has many applications to studies in geophysics, geology and atmospheric circulation. MOLA also functions as a passive radiometer, and is currently measuring the radiance of the surface of Mars at 1064 nm. Recently there was a spoof travelling around on the Internet, that Mars was the closest on 27th August 2005 and the next time it would come this close would be in the year 2287. If u want to know more abt this hoax check this site -- http://www.hoax-slayer.com/mars-earth-close.html