sbisson: (Mars Country Code)
sbisson ([personal profile] sbisson) wrote2005-02-22 12:07 am

Explore Mars from your desk

Just a quick pointer to the ESA Mars Express image browser, a rather nifty Flash tool for finding quality Mars Express images from a rotating globe...

Also, to a set of rather beautiful images of the Valles Marineris...



Some day my story of uplifted gorillas building a bridge across the Valles Marineris will finally see light...

The office windows looked out over the Valles Marineris, pulling in a light-lagged real-time video feed. It was late afternoon on Mars, and a squall was screaming up the immense canyon, driving a swarm of micro-lights before it. Just a few thrill-seeking body-hoppers, dodging the lightnings and the rain, playing with the winds, mortal flesh for a summer's afternoon. Turning away from the worlds, I glanced over to the waiting swarms of agents and viziers: AI implants and intelligence augmentations hovering in the quiet corners of my mind. They shone bright, reflecting the invisible colors of a virtual light, thoughts dancing in the winds of the datastream.

[identity profile] the-gardener.livejournal.com 2005-02-22 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
Triffic link! I have bookmarked it for subsequent use -- thanks.