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Yea, that should be rather straight forward with the Esri API. We should be able to find some time to add it by next week.

Yes, those are two really good points. What we do is first we have to find a middle ground on color, contrast, brightness between all Viking photographs. Because there are differen…

Right. HiRISE is awesome, but covers only roughly 5% of Mars surface. Check the blog we posted above [1], it gives very detailed explanation on that. [1] https://medium.com/mars26/…

Right. It works in Chrome so far. Firefox blocks the Twitter part. We have opened an issue already and should be working on it soon.

Thanks for the feedback! Yes, it is hard to get right. That's why neither NASA nor Google have a great blend. The artifacts should be mostly gone with our next version which we are…

Thanks! That's right. We did look into more open alternatives, but went with ArcGIS and spent our time on the image processing instead. Could be cool to build an alternative site e…

oh you will love the features we have on the backlog :)

Should be fixed for Safari now :)

They are great! We use their public beta CTX images. When we contacted them, they said the blended CTX images will be out of beta by end of the year :)

Good point. Google has two Mars Maps. Both are okay-ish. But not good enough really. Let me explain. Google Mars Maps[1] shows images from the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)[2], which p…

Yes, we are hosting an WMTS server which serves images corresponding to a user's current coordinates and zoom level. One image of the whole surface in full-res would be about 150 G…

There are great high-res maps of Moon out there already. E.g https://carto.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer3d/index.html Whereas for Mars somehow nobody had worked on it yet. That…

Thanks for the feedback! Added it to the list :) https://github.com/mars-2026/mars26_com/issues/4

Nice idea! We'll add a feature layer with points of interest. Clicking the Twitter symbol should show you somebody's tweet on that position. Works in Chrome, and we'll add support …

Oh yea, noted. We'll update it today

Well, it's technically possible to serve any feature layer via the API.. I'd assume there isn't that much traffic though. Although I've heard air traffic is picking up lately, even…

Appreciate the feedback! I assume you mean the issue mentioned before[1]. We've opened an issue on github and will fix soon [1] https://github.com/mars-2026/mars26_com/issues/1

Thanks! Great feedback. We've opened an issue and will fix soon https://github.com/mars-2026/mars26_com/issues/1

Hi HN, we are a small team of space fans who simply wanted a better Mars map. Read about our motivation and process here https://medium.com/mars26/the-most-detailed-mars-map-yet-71…

HSBC is just playing save here as MicroStrategy is itself kind of a Bitcoin ETF with 81% of its balance sheet in the cryptocurrency [1] https://bitcointreasuries.org/

Interesting. I always wondered why IrfanView -> Image -> Convert to Grayscale doesn't look quite right