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                                2021 August 7

                     Jezero Crater: Raised Ridges in 3D
                 Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, Ingenuity

   Explanation: Get out your red-blue glasses and hover over the surface
   of Mars. Taken on July 24, the 3D color view is from the Mars Ingenuity
   Helicopter's 10th flight above the Red Planet. Two images from
   Ingenuity's color camera, both captured at an altitude of 12 meters (40
   feet), but a few meters apart to provide a stereo perspective, were
   used to construct the color anaglyph. Ingenuity's stereo images were
   made at the request of the Mars Perseverance rover science team. The
   team is considering a visit to these raised ridges on the floor of
   Jezero Crater during Perseverance's first science campaign.

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