Here's another 3D Mars surface explorer: https://murray-lab.caltech.edu/CTX/V01/SceneView/MurrayLabCT...
Edit: Searching through my notes, I realised I've been down this rabbit hole before. Here are some more of the same:
Google Mars (2005)
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Re: Google Mars (2005)
#22https://www.google.com/sky/ https://www.google.com/moon/
Woah, check out this page: https://www.google.com/sky/about.html 2011 in the footer. Remnants of the old google of a by-gone era. Simultaneously feels both like yesterday and an eternity ago. The video is from 2008: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX9MeF2Au9c I bet whoever made this is no longer there and it has been forgotten about internally.
There was a time where employees could get paths under google.com/ for semi-personal projects.
Re: Google Mars (2005)
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just wanted to point out that legally nothing is stopping Google from releasing Street View in Germany as far as I know. Maybe they will do so soon, considering that Apple Look Around is available for most of Germany
Street View is also available in Germany as far as I can tell.
Only in the initial cities in which they started doing it before the backlash got so large that they abandoned it.
A few months later, when Microsoft or whoever did their take on it, nobody cared anymore because it wasn't about principles.
Re: Google Mars (2005)
#24Someone once told me that Mars has better elevation data than Earth. Maybe it's the quality of the orbiters or maybe it's the fact that there is less atmospheric interference and you can use LiDAR vs radar? Can anyone confirm? bdon, if you're reading this we need a protomaps archive for the moon and Mars :)
I thought that earth elevation data is unreliable in forested areas, as vegetation hides the true elevation of those areas. That's probably not a significant problem on Mars...
Re: Google Mars (2005)
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Woah, check out this page: https://www.google.com/sky/about.html 2011 in the footer. Remnants of the old google of a by-gone era. Simultaneously feels both like yesterday and an eternity ago. The video is from 2008: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX9MeF2Au9c I bet whoever made this is no longer there and it has been forgotten about internally.
The comments from 15 years ago are even more interesting.
What's that quote about dying a hero vs living long enough to see yourself become the villain?
Re: Google Mars (2005)
#26If you want higher res, check out the recently released Murray Lab CTX global mosaic:
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/new-interactive-mosaic-uses...
Re: Google Mars (2005)
#27Someone once told me that Mars has better elevation data than Earth. Maybe it's the quality of the orbiters or maybe it's the fact that there is less atmospheric interference and you can use LiDAR vs radar? Can anyone confirm? bdon, if you're reading this we need a protomaps archive for the moon and Mars :)
I thought that earth elevation data is unreliable in forested areas, as vegetation hides the true elevation of those areas. That's probably not a significant problem on Mars...
I think vegetation is an issue with LiDAR but my understanding is that radar penetrates down to the ground.
Re: Google Mars (2005)
#28https://www.google.com/sky/ https://www.google.com/moon/
It would be cool if they updated Google Sky to use JWST images.
Re: Google Mars (2005)
#29If you want higher res, check out the recently released Murray Lab CTX global mosaic: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/new-interactive-mosaic-uses... https://murray-lab.caltech.edu/CTX/index.html
Any idea of high res images from Tianwen-1, as per reports they have imaged most of Mars surface, and being a more recent mission, may have better camera.
Re: Google Mars (2005)
#30Always wanted this