Astronomy December 2000

Into Another Dimension - Strap on your 3-D glasses and watch the solar system and the deep sky come to life as we present three stories filled with wondrous three-dimensiopnal images.

The Mars Pathfinder mission may have shut down in 1997, but scientists continue to pore over the images and data returned from a martian flood plain.

Distant galaxies, glowing nebulae, glittering star clusters, and more highlight Akira Inaka's impressive gallery of astrophotos.

NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission returned 270 megabytes of data every second, letting scientists create topographic maps of 80 percent of Earth's landmass.