Video: A bird's eye view of the Nili trenches
This virtual tour of the surface of Mars was created using data from DLR's High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board the European Space Agency (ESA) Mars Express spacecraft. The trench fractures of Nili Fossae are visible. The grabens of Nili Fossae stretch for several hundred kilometers along the eastern side of the massive impact basin Isidis Planitia, forming a concentric pattern that runs parallel to the basin's boundary; this suggests that the rifts originated due to tensile tension resulting from settling in the martian crust after the Isidis impact. The image mosaic was combined with topography information from the digital terrain model (DTM) calculated for this area to create a three-dimensional view of the landscape.
Video: A bird's eye view of the Nili trenches
Video: A bird's eye view of the Nili trenches
This virtual tour of the surface of Mars was created using data from DLR's High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board the European Space Agency (ESA) Mars Express spacecraft. The trench fractures of Nili Fossae are visible. The grabens of Nili Fossae stretch for several hundred kilometers along the eastern side of the massive impact basin Isidis Planitia, forming a concentric pattern that runs parallel to the basin's boundary; this suggests that the rifts originated due to tensile tension resulting from settling in the martian crust after the Isidis impact. The image mosaic was combined with topography information from the digital terrain model (DTM) calculated for this area to create a three-dimensional view of the landscape.
Credit:
ESA/DLR/FU Berlin & NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
Duration:03:28