3D view of Curiosity's landing site from HiRISE

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This is a red-blue anaglyph. Use 3D glasses (red over left eye, blue over right) to see it in 3D, or scroll down for other stereo or flicker gif versions.

For a 3D view of the landing site, HiRISE took two photos from slightly different angles. The white dot marks the spot where Curiosity landed. The scale at full resolution is about 1 meter per pixel. North is about 7 degrees to the right of up (the images are aligned along Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's orbital path).

NASA / JPL / UA / dot by Emily Lakdawalla

Source page on HiRISE website >

Here is a full-resolution version in PNG format, from which left and right images can be separated. Warning: 55 MB!

Stereo versions

Stereo images are composed of one image for the left eye and one image for the right eye. Crossed-eye stereo presents the right-eye image on the left, and left-eye image on the right. Parallel-eye stereo presents the left-eye image on the left, and the right-eye image on the right. A flicker gif presents the left- and right-eye images alternately. Download the full-resolution single-eye images to use in your own stereo viewing applications:

• left-eye image
• right-eye image

Cross-eyed stereo

Parallel-eyed (also known as wall-eyed or side-by-side) stereo