ILLUSION OF THE WEEK!

Read this first! Start out by placing the top edge of the image below at the top edge of your monitor screen. It's a closeup of the surface of the Saturnian moon Tethys, as imaged by the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft. Note the heavily-cratered surface. Slowly scroll down, admiring the craters, and notice that at some point you will start seeing what appear to be boulders on a rough surface, rather than craters. If you now scroll back up, what looked like craters before now also look like boulders. Most Web presentations of this “crater/hill” illusion don't really work, for most viewers, because of poor design or concept. This real-life example works excellently. Try it!  Can you cause the flip from crater to boulder to occur by an act of will?  Try it!

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