Mars’s Shalbatana Vallis in 3D

This stereoscopic image shows part of Shalbatana Vallis, a large channel near Mars’s equator. It was generated from data captured by the High Resolution Stereo Camera on ESA’s Mars Express orbiter on 22 October 2024 (orbit 26265). The anaglyph offers a three-dimensional view when viewed using red-green or red-blue glasses.

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[Image description: A greyscale image of the surface of Mars, with a large, winding channel running from the bottom left to the right of the frame. The rest of the landscape is scattered with circular craters and uneven bumps, but is mostly smooth. A small scale bar at the bottom right indicates that north is to the left, and that a line approximately one tenth of the image width is 20 km long. At the top right of the image is an icon of a pair of 3D (red-blue) glasses, indicating that the viewer can see the image in three dimensions when viewing using special glasses.]