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I thought I'd start a thread for various videos and animations generated from the Mars Exploration Rovers, Mars Express and any other Mars missions. 

My latest contribution is a sequence from sol 400 to 600 for the Spirit Rover as it climbed the Columbia Hills from Larry's Lookout to the summit of Husband Hill.  I used front and rear Hazcam images but added my own spin:  I changed the aspect ratio and colorized the images and added some cool Canadian surf music by the group Vegas Beach along for the ride.

The video is on my homepage and my videos page.  On the videos page you'll find the other Mars Rover videos I created plus some of my videos derived from Mars Express images.

Enjoy!
Aldo.

I just completed a summary of what we know of the layered volcanic rocks and outcrops at Columbia Hills.  It sort of tries to put a few things in perspective. Hopefully NASA's upcoming observations from the Husband Hill summit will give them a good structural model for the Hills so we can tie everything together.

Just click on the "Layered Volcanics" link on my homepage.

PS: Stu's "make believe" photos of Phobos and Deimos are great.  There was one he did with the Milky Way as viewed from Husband Hill that was pretty cool.

I just posted my 19 most favourite Spirit stereo photos, but they're also quite unique in that I colourized and enhanced the original black and white images.  I have it set up so that everyone can view them, whether you use the cross-eyed method or parallel method.  (Most people are used to the cross-eyed method.)

Hope you like them,

Cheers,
Aldo

If you liked the photo of the crater with the patch of ice in the interior, you might like the flyover video I created from it.  It's on my videos page.  But the one I just completed, flying over Coprates Chasma, is one of the more complicated ones I've generated -- and one of the more longer ones, at 7 minutes.  It's right on my homepage below.

Hope you get a kick out of it

The process that Rxke is describing is similar to what has been proposed for the formation of duricrust, except that the fluid moving up through the soil contains salts/sulfates in solution.  When fluid sublimates, the sulfates act as a cement and create a hard upper surface.  Perhaps at Pergatory the soil below the duricrust was very much uncosolidated and so when Opportunity broke through the duricrust, it got jammed in the looser material.

There's a more detail discussion of duricrust on my site below.

I've also just summarized press releases and abstracts discussing Burns Cliff and the evidence for flowing water from cross-bedding features. 

The links to all articles on my homepage.

Cheers,
Aldo.

Rxke, it was actually Phil Stooke who enhanced the images I used, so I have no idea what process he used.  I remember seeing other attempts to show details "inside" Ultreya but Phil's is the most effective.

The unprocessed TIFF is available at:

http://marsoweb.nas.nasa.gov/landingsit … ...2-00357

If you really like the Iani and Ares photo, you might want to check out my video simulating a flyby over the Ares valley and the humocky terrain of Iani.  It's a 6 minute animation of the recently released Mars Express perspective photos.

Hope you like it!

Cheers,
Aldo.

http://www.marsgeo.com/]http://www.marsgeo.com/

Thanks Rxke!!  I'm glad you like the site.  I'm hoping to be able to post new material at least every second week.  So stay tuned!

OK, I'll post it there.......I went back about 4 pages and didn't notice anything on Mars Express.

I just completed a summary of what I read in a few abstracts concerning the chemistry and alteration that the Mars rovers observed on the Gusev plains and in the Columbia Hills.  It's well established that the alteration in the Hills was of greater intensity than on the plains, but it seems that the alteration process at West Spur is also different from that higher up in the Hills.  Still no conclusive theories, though.

Cheers,
Aldo.

I just updated my "Mars movie" animating Opportunity front hazard camera images from sols 200 to 400.  I'm hoping to do the same for Spirit sometime next week.  The action is not as fluid as I like but I hope everybody gets a kick out of it anyways.  I plan to label some of the rocks and features in future updates.

Cheers,
Aldo.

I think it says a lot about the accuracy of NASA's "approximate true colour" renderings.