Tuesday 4 August 2015

Having Just Watched,

a few programs about Mars,


both fiction and nonfiction, I noticed this from the European Space Agency that takes us on an imaginary helicopter ride through the Atlantis Chaos region of Mars, for a look at the topography if you look at that region in the centre, in blue, that’s Atlantis Chaos, it’s located in the Atlantis basin, a crater about 4 billion years old, so old that its edges have eroded, the Chaos region measures just 105 by 90 miles, but long ago, the entire basin is thought to have been connected to other basins, forming the hypothetical Eridania lake, if it existed, the lake would have been huge, covering about 385,000 square miles,


 if you have time, just a few minutes, here's the full fly by, all of these were taken by ESA’s Mars Express orbiter in December 2008, February 2009, and January 2014, absolutely stunning.


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