{"id":12624,"date":"2010-03-21T11:20:31","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T11:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/candor-chasma\/"},"modified":"2010-03-21T11:20:31","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T11:20:31","slug":"candor-chasma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/candor-chasma.php","title":{"rendered":"Candor Chasma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomsastroblog.com\/?p=5462\"><em>Click here to view the embedded video.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This animation of a virtual flight over of the southwestern part of the Candor Chasma on Mars was made from HiRISE Digital Terrain Models (DTM&#8217;s).\u00a0 Essentially DTM&#8217;s are made from two images of the same area on the ground taken from different angles, a stereo pair.  The process of going from a stereo pair to a DTM is the hard part.  Happily we have people who are up to the challenge.<\/p>\n<p>The great thing about the DTM is the high resolution of the source imagery, the HiRISE images coming from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter are normally between 0.25 and 0.5 m\/pixel.\u00a0 The derived terrain is about four times the source, so we are talking a vertical precision in the tens of centimeters. <sup>1<\/sup><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VWoGvrymsS4\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hat tip to Don, thanks Don!<\/p>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup> <a href=\"http:\/\/hirise.lpl.arizona.edu\/HiBlog\/tag\/dtm\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/hirise.lpl.arizona.edu\/HiBlog\/tag\/dtm\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click here to view the embedded video. This animation of a virtual flight over of the southwestern part of the Candor Chasma on Mars was made from HiRISE Digital Terrain Models (DTM&#8217;s).\u00a0 Essentially DTM&#8217;s are made from two images of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/candor-chasma.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}