Unlike on Earth, however, Mars has no plate tectonics, so the Martian layers are flat and not disrupted as they would be on Earth.

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As far as the real-time encoded live TV content, the resolution looked fine but the stereoscopic illusion was a little, well, flat -- as if layers of 2D objects were placed at varying distances.

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Since they are built on to a flat wafer, rather than etched out of it, layers of vertical transistors could even be constructed on top of one another, raising the intriguing possibility of multi-storey semiconductors.

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The flat panel displays, which make kaleidoscopic colors when jabbed with a finger, contain liquid crystal sandwiched between layers of glass or plastic which becomes opaque with an electric current.

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