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Re: Google Mars (2005)

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Post by FR10 »

rixrax wrote: post #43

Search located Pathfinder without problems[0]. But not the Ares III landing site[1]... [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Pathfinder [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martian_(film)

Having recently finished the book (awesome btw), Acidalia Planitia, Pathfinder and Schiaparelli where my first 3 queries

Re: Google Mars (2005)

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Post by zokier »

throwaway199956 wrote: post #29
zokier wrote: post #26

If 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.

Found a chinese map here: https://moon.bao.ac.cn/Mars/index/index.html

From the looks of it, it might be Tianwen-1 MoRIC (100m/px) data. But I'm not sure, I always have difficulty navigating non-NASA data sources.

I don't think the higher resolution HiRIC (up to 2.5m/px) data is publicly available. I don't also know what sort of coverage they have for it.

But in general it's not just having the data, stitching a global mosaic is a non-trivial effort. Afaik the Murray Lab mosaic took several years of work to make.

There is also HRSC from ESA that has been imaging Mars with fairly good resolution/coverage.

And finally also UAE Hope mission has produced global map, but I haven't been able to find their full-resolution data. https://nyuad.nyu.edu/en/news/latest-news/science-and-techno...

Re: Google Mars (2005)

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Post by imajoredinecon »

foobarbecue wrote: post #47
godber wrote: post #41

Hahaha, that was a busy weekend when this launched in like 2005-2006. I was one of the sysadmins of the website with the THEMIS images. Google promoted it directly below the search box. Which made my web servers 3 clicks away from Google’s front page. I spent the weekend cannibalizing compute nodes from one of our clusters to work as caching proxies. It all worked out pretty well.

Very cool, thanks for sharing. It's fascinating to me that google has put so little effort into their planetary maps since an inital burst of interest, but hasn't killed them yet. Is it just "below the radar"? I guess I assumed they would have some management process that kills zombie projects... don't they?

From my experience working there, killing a cute toy project like this takes some breaking change in a dependency plus nobody willing to spend a few hours every now and then to maintain it. Both of these are basically luck of the draw, so it’s not surprising to have stuff like this stick around for this long.

Re: Google Mars (2005)

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Post by zokier »

willidiots wrote: post #52
silvertaza wrote: post #50

If the visible map here is gray, why is it red-ish in the sky looking at it with the naked eye?

https://wehoville.com/2013/01/07/why-are-images-from-space-p...

That article feels overly dismissive. Notably more recent Mars missions such as Tianwen and Hope do have normal bayer cameras onboard producing color images.
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