The stunning, otherworldly landscape of the Canadian Badlands teems with wildlife and unusual species, from prairie rattlesnakes and horned lizards to prickly pear cacti. Comfort camping in wood-floored tents or staying in backcountry huts is available at three provincial parks in the region. The badlands were named by early French explorers who termed their steep-sloped mesas (flat-topped mountains) and deep, winding gullies as “bad lands to cross.” Don’t miss a chance to camp and explore this otherworldly landscape. The Milk River Natural Area to the south of these hills preserves wild prairie in the same undisturbed state as when the buffalo roamed. An astonishing diversity of plants and animals make their home in the grasslands, forests and wetlands of these high, lush plateaus. It is home to the largest deposits of dinosaur bones in the world.Īt the southeast end of the badlands, the Cypress Hills rise 600 metres above the plains like a vast layer cake of sedimentary rock.
Spanning east from Drumheller to the Saskatchewan border and south to the United States, this region is known as the Canadian Badlands. Today, fertile plains suddenly drop away into a world of multi-hued canyons and wind-sculpted hoodoos. Of the seven good images, the lighting and time at which two pairs of images were taken are so close as to reduce the number to five distinct images.īy combining data from the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on the Mars Express probe and the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) on board NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor it has been possible to create a three-dimensional representation of the “ Face on Mars“.Seventy-five million years ago, when dinosaurs walked the earth, southern Alberta was a subtropical paradise of towering redwoods and giant ferns. The other eleven images have resolutions that are worse than 550 m/pixel (1800 ft/pixel) and are of limited use for studying surface features. Eighteen images of the Cydonia region were taken by the orbiters, of which seven have resolutions better than 250 m/pixel (820 ft/pixel). It was first imaged in detail by the Viking 1 and Viking 2 orbiters. Cydonia (region of Face on Mars)Ĭydonia is a region on the planet Mars that has attracted everyone. This face is pretty uncanny and vastly superior to that alledged “ face on mars”. It has a screen name ‘ Super Granny‘ on Google Earth. Its Location is in Alberta, Canada with Latitude & Longitude: 50.010262, -110.113747 and can only be seen from an ariel view or on google earth. The ‘ head‘ may have been created during a short period of fast erosion immediately following intense rainfall.Īlthough the image appears to be a convex feature, it is actually concave - that is, a valley, which is formed by erosion on a stratum of clay, is an instance of the Hollow-Face illusion and it’s age is estimated to be the in hundreds of years at a minimum. The arid badlands are typified by infrequent but intense rain-showers, sparse vegetation and soft sediments. Head is a drainage feature created through erosion of soft, clay-rich soil by the action of wind and water.
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