3D view of the crater
3D view of the crater
The nadir channel, which is directed vertically down onto the surface of Mars, and one of the four stereo channels in the DLR-operated HRSC camera system, can be used to create anaglyph images, which produce a realistic, three-dimensional view of the landscape when viewed with red/blue or red/green glasses. In this image, a collection of several craters of varying ages and at various stages of erosion can be seen. In the three-dimensional view, it is easy to see how the profile of the crater is increasingly smoothed off the longer it is exposed to erosion. One very large impact crater, some 70 kilometres in diameter and with a fairly steep, towering crater rim, dominates the left (southern) half of the image.
