Meridiani Planum by azrabella
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Description
A reasonably accurate rendering using MOLA data and sample colouring from ESA. Meridiani Planum is a plain located 2 degrees south of Mars' equator, in the westernmost portion of Sinus Meridiani. It hosts a rare occurrence of gray crystalline hematite. On Earth, hematite is often formed in hot springs or in standing pools of water; therefore, many scientists believe that the hematite at Meridiani Planum may be indicative of ancient hot springs or that the environment contained liquid water. The hematite is part of a layered sedimentary rock formation approximately 200 meters thick. Other features of Meridiani Planum include volcanic basalt and impact craters. (Wikipaedia)
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Comments (12)
worlds end
Mood, lighting, colors, and surfaces are all outstanding!!! Very nicely done!
Ionel
Amazing work! And thank you for information!
Ruthee
Awesome landscape! :)
Tiwiwine
Superb panorama !
ppetersen
Very interesting surfacing you've achieved. Excellent depiction of Mars...
Rich2
Interesting that we both did a "Mars" and they're side-by-side. Cool pano... Looks like an overlay up front - resembles rock overhangs. Nice effect!
fractalinda
Marvelous panoramic view, superb colors and atmosphere, and the surfacing is outstanding. Fascinating bit of info and description. Thanks! Excellent work.
Chaos911
brilliant work, excellently done!!!!!! :)
aarontyler
Cool Image... I like the foreground textures, and heavy atmosphere!
Simpleworks
Fantastic render, Love what you did in the foreground.
JAYBEEH
Excellent panoramic shot!!...it certaintly looks Marsish to me Rob!!....^_^..
Naoo