Martian Cartography |
Martian Cartography |
May 15 2006, 04:16 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 147 Joined: 14-April 06 From: Berlin Member No.: 744 |
I have recently freaked out a little bit about Martian maps of all sorts. And finally I was astonished with those highly detailed beauties that I list below. Nonetheless. some of them have huge inconsistencies (crater names) easily noticed when we compare the surroundings of Gusev crater. Enjoy:
http://www.ralphaeschliman.com/ http://planetologia.elte.hu/1cikkeke.phtml...arsmapinte.html http://pubs.usgs.gov/imap/i2782/ -------------------- |
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Aug 28 2009, 11:21 AM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10229 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
No, the 'Other Worlds' map was his first, the one with the flawed nomenclature.
"Did these guys know how large Mars was? Would have been some wide rivers. " Not really - lines are not usually drawn with width to scale - look at the width of a highway on a road map of a continent. Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PDF: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Aug 28 2009, 04:35 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1592 Joined: 14-October 05 From: Vermont Member No.: 530 |
"Did these guys know how large Mars was? Would have been some wide rivers. " Not really - lines are not usually drawn with width to scale - look at the width of a highway on a road map of a continent. Yeah. And I'm not saying they didn't lack the skepticism to consider that linear features could be lots of other things. It's just that when you look at a globe of the earth, and imagine it through a telescope, you won't see rivers. It would have been interesting to wonder what they expected Earth's albedo features to be. Were they expecting Amazon and Nile or even Red Sea in amongst water, brown land, green land, ice, and clouds? Might actually be interesting to get a few photos of Mars at opposition through similar or antique telescopes and say, this is about what they were looking at. Granted, the eyeball is a little better than a photo. |
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