Caldera in Mars by wizardofnoz
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Description
Imagination is more important than knowledge - Einstein
Made from a Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter terrain of the caldera in Apollinaris Patera, which is 40 degrees longitude east of Elysium Mons & 30 degrees latitude below it. This caldera (formed by the blowing away of the cone of a volcano) is of intermediate age, with basalt flows, interbedded flows, pyroclastic material and vicious lavas.
Terrain conversion of this 128 bit binary file from NASA missions was done using 3DEM.
Anybody interested in downloading Mars terrain files for rendering can get it from
http://pds-geosciences.wustl.edu/missions/mgs/megdr.html
Comments (37)
wizardofnoz
Actually this pic is a technical puzzle: Strata are found essentially in sedimentary rocks. Igneous material do not have strata, certainly not in a Caldera. But then isnt imagination more important than knowledge?
nfrocer
great image! I love the colors, the surface, the pov... simply great ;)
inkydigit
a true beauty...excellent pov/surfaces/strata and atmo!
peejay
breathtakingly beautiful
Artzy
Excellent!
carlx
Beautiful and fantastic!!! Really amazing view, bravo!!!
kiki35
EXCELLENT visio !
fractalinda
Awesome view, superb textures and strata..and gorgeous, excellent work!
1402dandoy
Amazing surfaces! Great!
joshus_hund
"The most important question that a person can ask is: Is the universe a nice place?" A. Einstein Looks like!! :-) Beautiful!
prutzworks
lol 1th tought loading the image.....: strata on mars? very cool render anyway
Kosmicman
Suuuuper done!!!
Costaud
Great render, very good POV and excellent surfaces.
Bleurelatif
Very good surfaces!
kanzler
Superb work!
Tiwiwine
Nice surfaces and colors.
lior
Excellent render!
Octaganoid
Great Mars render...Love anything to do with Mars
Ionel
Excellently done! Bravo!
Alex_NIKO
Very nice!
abreojos
Spectacular render OZ..if there was water there could have been strata..that space suit must be getting to prutzworks!
ARTWITHIN
That is incredible!
Micter
Very nice work with the surfaces ! Nice use of this terrain !
Valerie-Ducom
Oh yes, so beautiful and excellent composition !!! :)
stbc
Noel: This is a masterpiece! Bravo and congratulations!
FrankB
Great beauty in this!
Markal
Knowledge?....hmmmm...it seems I'm lacking in this area...quite a bit....but, I do know that this image is exceptional!! :)
shantay
Wow! perfection!!!
nvseal
Superb surfacing! Amazing realism.
Trollmac
Awesome work!