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Posted: **Fri Feb 27, 2009 3:51 am**

Mars in 3-D

This first of its kind three-dimensional picture of Mars' north pole, taken in 1999, enables scientists to estimate the volume of its water ice cap with unprecedented precision, and to study its surface variations and the heights of clouds in the region for the first time.

Approximately 2.6 million of laser pulse measurements were assembled into a topographic grid of the north pole with a spatial resolution of 0.6 miles (one kilometer) and a vertical accuracy of 15-90 feet (5-30 meters).

This image was generated the by Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter, or MOLA, an instrument that was aboard NASA's Mars Global Surveyor.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/GSFC

Posted: **Fri Feb 27, 2009 10:04 am**

So there's water on Mars? And clouds?

Posted: **Fri Feb 27, 2009 3:24 pm**

Mars is so 90's.

Posted: **Fri Feb 27, 2009 11:36 pm**

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Posted: **Sun Mar 01, 2009 2:41 pm**

^ It is

but when we will be in that future, what will people come up with to label it "sci-fi"? :mrgreen:

Posted: **Sun Mar 01, 2009 2:44 pm**

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MArs in 3D

MArs in 3D