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Old 03-13-2006, 12:51 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by myotismon
However, if you zoom out all the way, you'll notice that you’re really only looking at a tiny strip of Mars, probably one photograph just strung togther in a loop.
Actually, it is all of Mars. It looks like one photo stitched into a loop because planets don't have east and west poles, only north and south poles. Instead of stopping at 180 degrees east and west, Google just repeats the image over and over.
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