Friday, August 17, 2012

View of Mars' Mount Sharp via Curiosity.

Looking through NASA JPL's newest images from the Mars Curiosity, this one caught my eye: a view of Mount Sharp, the future destination of the Mars Curiosity rover, drawn with a 2km scale.

Mount Sharp, via NASA's JPL
The problem though, is a matter of fractals.  Nature close up, looks a lot like Nature zoomed out.  It still looks like a small hillside, doesn't it?

So I added the Burj Khalifa to the image to illustrate just how enormous this single mountain really is.

Burj Khalifa superimposed onto Mount Sharp

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