New Amazing Mars Flyover Videos

Doug Ellison from UnmannedSpaceflight.com has done it again… and again… and again. Here are new Mars flyover videos Doug has created from data from the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Using DEM (Digital Elevation Model)– (also known as DTM Digital Terrain Model) files provided by the HiRISE team, Doug is able to render 3-D movies of a specific location on Mars. Since he is using actual high-resolution data from HiRISE, Doug says the terrain seen in the movies has accurate vertical scaling and is not exaggerated. These new views of the Red Planet are also stunningly beautiful! The video above is of the Mojave Crater wall on Mars, and below is Athabasca Valles. And Doug says more are on the way! If you recall, Doug created the flyover video of the Spirit rover's location that was on Astronomy Picture of the Day.

Doug says he is working on videos of Gale Crater, Bahram Vallis, Candor Chasma, Juventae Chasma, and more. "I'm drowning in data!" he said via Twitter.

DEMs are a grid, or raster, file describing elevation values at regularly spaced points, or posts. HiRISE DEMs are made from two high-resolution images of the same area, taken from different look angles by the spacecraft. The HiRISE folks say that creating a DEM is complicated and involves sophisticated software and a lot of time, both computing time and man-hours.

However, DEMs aren't just for making amazing movies or stunning 3-D images. DEMs are very powerful research tools, used to take measurements and model geological processes. In fact, almost every HiRISE DEM produced results in a published paper.

Take a look at the DEM image and files from which the top video of Mojave Crater was made.

Read more about DEM files here from the HiRISE website.

And be sure to visit UnmannedSpaceflight.com to see all the wonderful images and videos created by Doug and many other very talented and avid fans of spaceflight.

Amazing videos and I didn't see them on here. Amazing and can't wait to see what's in store for the future missions.

Any thoughts?

Pred...

Good find.

Why can't they just give us a Cydonia flyover & get it over with?

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Don't post much in the sciece forum , so help out a noob.

These are video's , contrived by using many Pictures of Mars?

They look excellent, just not sure how they were obtained/made.

I was wondering.

Where are the mines, cities and reptilian skulls?

Originally posted by Sean48
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These are video's , contrived by using many Pictures of Mars?

They look excellent, just not sure how they were obtained/made.

No, these are animations.

Here is the original source for the OP's post: New Animations Take You Flying Over Mars

From the source:

A space-loving animator has created stunning flyovers of Mars from data captured by NASA’s HiRISE imager, which is mounted on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter satellite.

HiRISE creates detailed digital-elevation models. Crunch that data, add perspective and some cinematic effects, and you have the movies

man, u guys dont even know how to read

since when ANIMATION means real video ?

animation is a computer simulation, thats all ... man u guys need to work out your brains

Originally posted by Faiol
man, u guys dont even know how to read

since when ANIMATION means real video ?

animation is a computer simulation, thats all ... man u guys need to work out your brains

He could have down loaded the Jetson's cartoon if he wanted.

The question, Rocket Scientist, was Animation BASED on WHAT, PICTURES?

Are you sure the sky on Mars is red?

The corona seems blue
www.wired.com...

NASA cant decide the color...
xfacts.com...

[edit on 28-1-2010 by conar]