[far_solitaire]

Salut les amis ...

Avec les derniers rovers Spirit et oportunity et les différents orbiteurs sur mars, une base de donnée immense et spectaculaire sur la planète mars a vue le jours ... Alors pour ceux qui aiment les paysages marsiens, j'ai concocté une petite tournée sur la planète rouge ... avec des vues étonnantes garanties lol.

Avant la balade, commencons par quelques infos sur la planète :

Mars

La planète Mars est la quatrième planète du système solaire et la troisième plus petite, après Pluton et Mercure. Mars possède deux satellites naturels : Déimos et Phobos.

La couleur rouge de cet astre lui valut dans l'antiquité le rapprochement avec le dieu grec de la guerre Arès, puis avec son équivalent romain Mars, le rouge évoquant le sang des champs de bataille. Les Égyptiens la nommaient « Horus rouge (Hor-desher) » et connaissaient son « déplacement à reculons ». Les Babyloniens la nommaient Nirgal/Nergal, l'étoile de la mort. Actuellement Mars est aussi connue sous le nom de planète rouge. En Chine, Japon, Corée et Viêt Nam, Mars est l'étoile de feu 火星 (huǒxīng en pinyin, かせい ou kasei en japonais, 화성 en coréen)

Le symbole astronomique de Mars est un cercle avec une flèche pointant vers le nord-est (Unicode 0x2642 ♂). Ce symbole est une représentation stylisée du bouclier et de la lance du dieu Mars. (wiki)

Caraceristiques de Mars par rapport à la terre :

http://www-k12.atmos.washington.edu/k12/mars/graphics/Mars_Earth.gif

http://cmex.ihmc.us/data/SiteCat/schemas/orbpar.gif

Mars et la Terre
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/images/content/96670main_br_earth-mars-front.jpg

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Hubble's sharpest view of Mars, taken March 10, 1997
http://quest.nasa.gov/mars/photos/images/mars3-97.gif

Shots taken by Hubble Space Telescope giving a three-way perspective
http://quest.nasa.gov/mars/photos/images/mars3.gif

Mars Express radar collects first surface data
http://esamultimedia.esa.int/images/marsexpress/MARSIS2800_H.jpg

Beautiful Sunset on Mars
http://img15.echo.cx/img15/2971/sunset8003ug.jpg

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Spirit Reaches Summit of Husband Hill, Sends Back Breathtaking Photos
http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/6674/marsmerasol581husbandsummitdes.jpg

'Payson' Panorama by Opportunity
http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/126/sol744bp2351l257tb744r18yk.jpg

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/8858/gibsonl257ta751r10bf.jpg

Ice lake found on the Red Planet
http://www.esa.int/images/212-010705-1343-6-3d-01-CraterIce_L.jpg

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http://a52.g.akamaitech.net/f/52/827/1d/www.space.com/images/050302_iod_marsice_04a.jpg

South Polar Cap of Mars
http://quest.nasa.gov/mars/photos/images/marssp.gif

Le grand Canyon marsien
http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i166/glitzless/69.png

http://www.universetoday.com/am/uploads/20060313-mars-full.jpg

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Spirit Drives To Methuselah
http://www.marsdaily.com/images/mars-mera-sol454-valley-hill-tracks-desk-1024.jpg

Postcard Above Tennessee Valley
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/126568main_pia04183-browse.jpg

Spirit's Spectacular View From the Summit
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/126574main_pia04184-browse.jpg

Top of the World
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA04181.jpg

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Possible Meteorites in the Martian Hills
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/151974main_30555-4-Sol872A-P226-516.jpg

Spirit Examines Light-Toned 'Halley' (False Color)
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/151285main_pia08567-516.jpg

View Northward from Spirit's Winter Roost
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/150046main_pia08527-516.jpg

View Northward from Spirit's Winter Roost (False Color)
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/150044main_pia08526-516.jpg

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Stack of Layers at 'Payson' in Meridiani Planum
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/146736main_pia08065-516.jpg

Cobbles in Troughs Between Meridiani Ripples (False Color)
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/148766main_pia08467-516-256.jpg

Spirit Beholds Bumpy Boulder
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/148172main_pia08440-516.jpg

Rolling Ripple
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/147837main_pia08424-516.jpg

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Before the Grind
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/57526main_MM_image_feature_155_jw4.jpg

The Edge of Bonneville Crater
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/56846main_MM_image_feature_145_jw4.jpg

Evidence of Ancient Martian Rivers
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/53259main_MM_image_feature_98_jw4.jpg

Unusual Gullies and Channels on Mars.
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/1385main_MM_Image_Feature_17_rs4.jpg

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Low Sun from 'Low Ridge'
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/147839main_pia08423-516.jpg

Opportunity: Me and My Shadow
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/63205main_image_feature_200_jw4.jpg


Spirit's 'Wishstone'
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/105371main_image_feature_248_ajh4.jpg

Mars Under the Microscope
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/55576main_MM_image_feature_126_jw4.jpg

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'Berries' on the Ground
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/55798main_MM_image_feature_130_jw4.jpg

Opportunity Approaches the Bowl of Beagle Crater
http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/press/opportunity/20060807a/Sol894B_P2354_False_L257-B894R1_br2.jpg

http://www.lyle.org/mars/imagery/nearcolor/127603243-4.jpg

This pair of images shows a dune as it appeared on July 17, 2002, (left) and as it appeared on April 27, 2005, (right).
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/newsroom/pressreleases/images/PIA04290_br.jpg

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Opportunity Rolls Free Again (Four Wheels)
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/150060main_pia08532.gif

http://a52.g.akamaitech.net/f/52/827/1d/www.space.com/images/040226_iod_rover_04.gif

Un phantom sur mars, non je plaisante lol ... une micro tornade.
http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/2296/devil7jp.gif

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Inca City as seen by Mariner 9. Inca City is possibly a network of crevasse fillings, ridges of sediment deposited in fissures in dead glacial ice.
http://quest.nasa.gov/mars/photos/images/inca_city.jpg

The so-called "face" on Mars, located in the Cydonia Mensae region, possibly a a subglacial volcano
http://quest.nasa.gov/mars/photos/images/face.jpg

This picture of sand dunes in Wirtz Crater was obtained by the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) in early October 2002
http://www.space.com/images/ig147_02_02.jpg

This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) high resolution image shows a field of dark sand dunes on the floor of Kaiser Crater in southeastern Noachis Terra.
http://www.space.com/images/ig147_12_02.jpg

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This MGS MOC image shows erosional streaks on dunes which means that the dunes are indurated (cemented). Click to enlarge.
http://www.space.com/images/ig147_14_02.jpg

One of the earliest results of the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)investigation shortly after the spacecraft began to orbit Mars in 1997 was the discovery of layered rock outcrops reaching deep down into the martian crust in the walls of the Valles Marineris
http://www.space.com/images/ig147_13_02.jpg

Nirgal Vallis is a narrow valley system that stretches approximately 420 kilometers (260 miles) across the martian surface near 28°S latitude, north of the large basin, Argyre
http://www.space.com/images/ig147_11_02.jpg

One of the key elements of the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) Extended Mission is to look for and monitor changes taking place on the planet over the course of a second---and, eventually, a third---martian year
http://www.space.com/images/ig147_09_02.jpg

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Each spring as the sun comes up over the polar regions, the seasonal frosts that have accumulated there during winter begin to sublime away. Dunes are among the first features to show spots and streaks resulting from the defrosting process.
http://www.space.com/images/ig147_03_02.jpg

Tremendous floods carved these tear drop-shaped landforms in Athabasca Vallis in the Cerberus region, south of the Elysium volcanoes
http://www.space.com/images/ig147_06_02.jpg

A 50-cm contour map of part of Mars' south polar ice cap. The region shownis roughly a kilometer on a side
http://www.space.com/images/ig147_08_02.jpg

The presence of impact craters on these volcanoes, particularly on Uranius Tholus; indicates that theyare quite ancient and are not active today
http://www.space.com/images/ig147_10_02.jpg

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Allez ... jsuis creuvé, j'arrete ;)

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[Hippone]

Merci pour ces magnifiques photos Far_solitaire.
N'hésite pas à nous balancer d'autres si t'en as!

[basma]

vraiment vraiment magnifique bravo :5:

[Grl O'neil]

La derniere video reçu a été classé TOP secret !!

http://www.videodetective.com/sideplayer.asp?publishedID=973075&customerId=31457

[Absente]

IMPRESSIONNANT !

mais comment tu as fait pour avoir toutes ces photos ? tu étais du voyage :D ?

[far_solitaire]

J'aurai pas dit non :D, mais c'est grace à lui :

http://www.planetastronomy.com/menu/dern-nouv-mars_fichiers/image009.jpg

et ses frères ;)