Everyone here has probably heard by now of Rosetta and its (her, his? what is the proper pronoun for a satelite? What do you think?) fly by of Mars to pick up speed or whatvever on its trajectory to the Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko, if not, you should check out Brendon's article about it.
But, did you guys hear what those silly Euros did on their fly by (besides drop of Mars landers?), they took pictures of Mars in...3D!! Now, when I heard this, I assumed that they did some computer-imaging, terrain maping, composite photos or something, but no. When they said 3D, they mean old-school, put on your 3-D glasses, red-blue pictures. They also took some pictures and strung them together to make a movie of Phobos casting a shadow on Mars.
Oh, those crazy Europeans.
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