Flight Into Mariner Valley

The scenes in this imaginary flight come from a movie by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Digital Image Animation Laboratory. The movie uses the most detailed mosaic image ever made of Valles Marineris.

This image was assembled at Arizona State University's Mars Space flight Facility from more than 500 individual photos taken by the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) aboard NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter.

The lights now dim, and the movie begins to run...

http://themis.asu.edu/valles_video