Sometimes you have to step outside to change your mind about something.
Sometimes you have to take a walk.
Sometimes I have to go someplace entirely different.
Adrian Lark, founder of Mars3D.com, has created a virtual ‘flyover’ video of the martian landscape using image data collected by NASA’s HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment), the most powerful camera ever sent into space.
The stunning animation shows Mars’s southwest Candor Chasma.
I had to go digging for it, but there is another thread over here describing how alien worlds might actually exist, and whether or not they may be useful in fiction descriptions. Some of it is far fetched, but some if it may be useful. If you’re on a ringed planet, did you know that the rings may alter their angle against the sun at different times of the year so that you may be in the shadow of the rings for half a year or so? This is why you don’t go sunbathing on Saturn.
