Well I’m impressed as all heck. I was just over at Discover Blogs and saw that Phil Plait had put this up on his blog, Bad Astronomy. I’ll just quote him in his explanation of it:
Via Emily at the Planetary Society blog comes this amazing animation, a three-dimensional flyover of Candor Chasma on Mars generated using HiRISE data.
Holy cow. And the timing of this video… will some kid in middle school watch this video, wonder what it would be like to really do this, and then, in 25 more years, be sitting at the stick of a Martian flyer?
All I can say from my perspective is that this is absolutely incredible. Thanks to Emily, I have a feeling that my fellow Meddling Kid Boy Infidel will be curling up with dreams of Mars tonight.
Jim
