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10/31/2013 7:42:30 AM EDT
I thought this was pretty nifty. They pieced together thousands of pictures into a flyover video.





http://www.iflscience.com/space/flyover-mars

10/31/2013 7:47:11 AM EDT
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That was very cool.





The terrain features are amazing.





Thanks OP
10/31/2013 7:52:57 AM EDT
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10/31/2013 7:57:42 AM EDT
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All that wide-open space, sitting there sterile and useless.
10/31/2013 8:03:41 AM EDT
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I really wish we spent more money on this stuff.
10/31/2013 8:03:55 AM EDT
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I wanna go!
10/31/2013 8:04:59 AM EDT
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I just noticed the two photographs at the bottom of the article.
It took this one of the Earth and Moon on the way to Mars:

This was it's first picture from Mars:

 
10/31/2013 8:08:37 AM EDT
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Sign up, then. Mars One
10/31/2013 8:10:01 AM EDT
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I would really like a high-res version of that each-moon shot.  Truly awesome.
10/31/2013 8:13:18 AM EDT
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I don't know how you get some of that terrain without a lot of water.

(or at least a lot of fluid)
10/31/2013 8:29:42 AM EDT
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Thats the point, all the features you see are relics of a once active planet.  Its core seems to have cooled off, stopped spinning, and therefor lost is magnetic field.  Which has allowed the Sun to blast the surface for billions of years.
10/31/2013 8:39:10 AM EDT
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@1:35 I think I can see my house!
10/31/2013 8:40:04 AM EDT
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I don't know how you get some of that terrain without a lot of water.



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Thats the point, all the features you see are relics of a once active planet.  Its core seems to have cooled off, stopped spinning, and therefor lost is magnetic field.  Which has allowed the Sun to blast the surface for billions of years.


From 1:58 to 2:05 is really interesting.



 
10/31/2013 9:18:25 AM EDT
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Welcome to Afghanistan.
10/31/2013 9:37:36 AM EDT
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10/31/2013 9:44:07 AM EDT
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Shel Silverstein?