Showing posts with label Mars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mars. Show all posts

Monday, December 13, 2021

How To Advert A Martian Crater


At to the lowest degree twice a yr someone contacts me amongst the bright stance of selling off virtual holding on Google Maps. The stance ordinarily involves a uncomplicated map that users tin sack click on to purchase towns, neighborhoods, streets or buildings. I decline to function these maps on Google every bit users overstep cipher inward provide for stumping upwards their difficult earned cash.

Well straightaway someone has come upwards up amongst the stance of selling holding on Mars. Only this fourth dimension it is for a expert cause! Uwingu is a non-profit founded past times astronomers, planetary scientists, infinite educators, together with quondam NASA personnel amongst the mission to exercise novel ways to inspire infinite exploration together with astronomy. They exercise this by providing grants for infinite exploration, infinite research, together with infinite education.

To aid enhance funds for these grants Uwingu has come upwards up amongst the genius stance of selling the naming rights for craters on Mars. They convey created a map of Mars, including the 500,000 largest, withal unnamed craters. The Mars Surface Viewer allows anyone to click on a Mars Crater together with purchase the naming rights. The crater's are priced inward proportion to size. H5N1 minor crater costs merely $5 but, if you lot are feeling generous, you lot tin sack contribute to a greater extent than together with pick out grip of yourself a giant Mars crater instead.

Wednesday, December 1, 2021

Mapping The Mars Rover


The New York Times has created an amazing interactive map as well as timeline of NASA's Mars Rover. The Mars Curiosity Rover Tracker visualizes the rail of the Mars Rover on a satellite picture map of Mars.

You tin click on waypoints along the Rover's rail to sentiment photos captured past times the Rover on its twelvemonth as well as a one-half journeying into the Gale Crater. The surface of Mars is an alien landscape, unknown to nearly of us, the map hence includes a timeline showing the place of interesting stops on its journey.

If yous choose a twenty-four hours from the timeline or click on the waypoints on the map yous tin sentiment roughly amazing photographs from the surface of Mars. Many of the images bring been stitched together to utilisation amazing panoramic shots of the Martian landscape or to utilisation animations that aid illustrate how the Rover navigates the Martian surface.

Thursday, May 6, 2021

The Outset Human Being On Mars


There bring been a release of Google Maps over the years which plot the locations mentioned inward industrial plant of fiction. Andy Weir's The Martian Map is the rootage Google Map to plot a new assault Mars.

In Andy Weir's 'The Martian' NASA astronaut Mark Watney is abandoned on Mars afterward the remainder of his crew are forced to exit him behind. Watney is too thence forced to crusade a Mars rover 2,000 miles across the planet to Schiaparelli Crater inward guild to move picked upward yesteryear approximately other NASA mission.

The Martian Map plots the dissever of Watney's journeying to Schiaparelli Crater too approximately of the incidents he encounters along the way. The map uses the Google Mars base of operations map layers. These layers are non straight accessible inward v3 of the Google Maps API, nevertheless you lot tin purpose them yesteryear using this Planetary Map Types example.

Friday, April 2, 2021

Mapbox Mars


I don't intend this is novel (in fact I'm pretty certain I've seen at to the lowest degree 2 of these maps before) simply I create similar this peachy collection of Mapbox created Mars maps past times Chris Herwig.

Mars contains vii beautiful maps of Mars built from diverse NASA collections of imagery of the ruddy planet. The collection every mo good includes 2 images maps created from imagery collected past times the Curiosity Rover.

Lately I've seen a worrying tendency amid digital map creators who are omitting the attribution notices on their maps. It is thence prissy to come across that Chris credits OpenStreetMap on the MDIM 2.1 Mosaic map. I tin alone approximate that the map information was captured past times this guy during his long expect for NASA to rescue him from the surface of Mars.

Sunday, March 28, 2021

Google Maps Lands On The Luna & Mars


Google Maps right away lets y'all explore the Moon too Mars. To see either the Moon or Mars opened upwards the novel await Google Maps too to switch to 'Earth' (or satellite view) too zoom out on the map until y'all run across the whole globe. The Moon too Mars should right away seem equally options at the bottom of your screen.

If y'all are finding it hard to abide by the Moon or Mars too then endeavor these straight links - Moon & Mars.

Both the Moon too the Mars maps accept dynamic links hence y'all tin cutting & glue the address inward your browser's address bar to portion links to your favorite locations on either the Moon or the scarlet planet. For representative here's a link to land where Neil Armstrong rootage stepped on the Moon.

Here's where the Mars Curiosity landed inward Gales's Crater (Aeolis Mons).

Sunday, March 29, 2020

Mapping The Mountains Of Mars


Mapbox has added 2 Mars imagery layers to the Mapbox mapping library. Mars Satellite in addition to Mars Terrain uses information from NASA & ESA to supply map tiles of the surface of Mars.

H5N1 shipping service on the Mapbox Blog introduces the 2 novel Mars map layers amongst a demonstrate map for each of the novel Mars maps. The shipping service likewise includes an impressive 3d map of Mars created amongst the imagery using WebGL public & Cesium.js.

The 3d Mars map includes map markers which Pb to closer views of a release of Mars' mountains, crevasses in addition to volcanoes. Click on ane of the markers in addition to y'all tin persuasion the selected expanse visualized equally a wireframe or shaded relief model. It is likewise possible to adapt the terrain tiptop magnification of each model.

Mapping The Mountains Of Mars


Mapbox has added 2 Mars imagery layers to the Mapbox mapping library. Mars Satellite in addition to Mars Terrain uses information from NASA & ESA to supply map tiles of the surface of Mars.

H5N1 shipping service on the Mapbox Blog introduces the 2 novel Mars map layers amongst a demonstrate map for each of the novel Mars maps. The shipping service likewise includes an impressive 3d map of Mars created amongst the imagery using WebGL public & Cesium.js.

The 3d Mars map includes map markers which Pb to closer views of a release of Mars' mountains, crevasses in addition to volcanoes. Click on ane of the markers in addition to y'all tin persuasion the selected expanse visualized equally a wireframe or shaded relief model. It is likewise possible to adapt the terrain tiptop magnification of each model.