Dark, crescent-shaped dunes in a crater called Herschel show that the wind there blows mainly from north to south (Image: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona)
Get out your 3D spectacles! Hundreds of new red-cyan anaglyph images of Mars were recently released by the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). Although other Mars missions have taken 3D images, HiRISE is the most powerful camera to ever orbit another planet. It resolves features as small as 1 metre across – roughly the scale of a person.
Click here to see five of the most striking images.
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