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Offline Ozark

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« on: January 19, 2004, 02:04:29 PM »
Check out the detailed stereoscopic photo of a huge Martian canyon.

http://www.esa.int/export/SPECIALS/Mars_Express/SEMWF0474OD_1.html

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« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2004, 02:06:51 PM »
I see the beagle!!! :lol

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« Reply #2 on: January 19, 2004, 02:40:48 PM »
Maybe its an optical illusion, but it almost seems as if the two sides of the canyon meet at a 90-degree angle.

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« Reply #3 on: January 19, 2004, 06:12:32 PM »
If you look closely, you'll realize it's a composite of a vertical image and it's 3D representation, as if you were looking at it from a few hundred feet above the surface.

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« Reply #4 on: January 20, 2004, 01:49:53 AM »
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I see the beagle!!! :lol

:D

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« Reply #5 on: January 20, 2004, 02:29:37 AM »
You euro types blame america for all your failings?

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« Reply #6 on: January 20, 2004, 03:21:52 AM »
shrecking hell Grunherz, get over yourself. Or are you that dense?
War! Never been so much fun. War! Never been so much fun! Go to your brother, Kill him with your gun, Leave him lying in his uniform, Dying in the sun.

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« Reply #7 on: January 20, 2004, 03:32:00 AM »
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You euro types blame america for all your failings?


don't think the Washington post is Yuropean ... yet :)

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« Reply #8 on: January 20, 2004, 05:14:33 AM »
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shrecking hell Grunherz, get over yourself. Or are you that dense?

I guess he meant it as a joke.