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Wow that 3D viewer is smooth on mobile phone. So amazing to pinch and scroll around the planet.
It's quite amazing and simultaneously ridiculous that we have a public 3D model of a distant planet at 5 meters resolution while the best available free and public models of Earth are at 30 meters.
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You can fly your satellites lower in mars due to atmosphere density, as low as 20km it appears
On top of that isn't the lower resolution on earth more for military reasons than a technical one or is this not the case any more?
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Wow that 3D viewer is smooth on mobile phone. So amazing to pinch and scroll around the planet.
Are there photos anywhere? The 3D viewer's just showing black for me. (Viewer itself loaded, but as though no data specified/loaded - except what I assume are different views to jump to listed at the bottom.)
Please do not hammer the service unnecessarily, it's nice that they offer this publicly so lets not ruin the commons here.
Does anyone know why it spent so much time going back and forth?
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Edit: I see, it was always going back to the "Sample Depot Zone" to deposit the collected samples. This zone is where the chaos begins after the very long stretch. Here's [1] more info on the depot, including a photo made by the rover of what such a deposited sample looks like.
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[0] https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/mission/where-is-the-rover/
[1] https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-s-perseverance-rover-c...
That's spectacular. I'm curious how much storage space the entire dataset consumes in it's compresed form?
It's quite amazing and simultaneously ridiculous that we have a public 3D model of a distant planet at 5 meters resolution while the best available free and public models of Earth are at 30 meters.
WorldView-3 claims to be 31cm resolution: https://worldview3.digitalglobe.com/
So each pixel is about 5m x 5m? With Mars having a surface area of about 145 million square km, or 145 trillion square metres
Correct.
Many years ago, X-Plane version 8 or 9 included Mars scenery. This would make for a nice upgrade of that. The scenery was a bit lacking in detail and the atmosphere and gravity were of course adjusted. Pretty hard to fly there because the atmosphere is very thin. So, basically, you need some kind of rocket plane that flies at insane speeds. Makes for interesting take offs and landings.