1. Conventional wisdom suggests that present day Mars is a barren and desolate world incapable of supporting even the simplest forms of life. This is a notion which the composite panoramic photograph above does nothing to dispel. In keeping with that assumption, robotic missions sent to the red planet…
Here is a slideshow of a curated selection of anaglyph (aka stereo or 3d) images. Sorry, you will need your red & cyan 3d glasses for this, trust me it's worth getting a pair and they can be had for cheap …
Get out your 3D glasses to view these images! In addition to being really cool, these anaglyphs are of practical use in helping us to better understand what we are seeing. In copmparison to standard two dimensional images 3D imaging provides us with a great deal more information in two ways. The first is that two separate images of the same object provides us with what in essence is greater resolution from the use of two separate images are used to create the effect. The second is that addition of a third spatial dimension inherent in the anaglyph format helps us to differentiate between objects and to better understand relative placement and separation between objects that we might not see in the 2D image.
An analyst born 53 days before NASA. A midwesterner now living in the southeast. 
