Water oceans on mars?, Images of different water oceans on mars based on MGS MOLA instrument. |
Water oceans on mars?, Images of different water oceans on mars based on MGS MOLA instrument. |
Guest_Magnus Lundstedt_* |
Mar 14 2006, 11:20 PM
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I have just completed a fun little afternoon project. I have long been looking for what an ocean on mars would look like for different amounts of water - preferably with a movie for many different ocean heights. So after not finding it ever, I did it myself today:
http://magnus.infidyne.com/mars/water/ |
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Mar 17 2006, 01:57 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 688 Joined: 20-April 05 From: Sweden Member No.: 273 |
I have just completed a fun little afternoon project. I have long been looking for what an ocean on mars would look like for different amounts of water - preferably with a movie for many different ocean heights. So after not finding it ever, I did it myself today: http://magnus.infidyne.com/mars/water/ The actual surface of seas on Mars wouldn't be "flat" though. Here on Earth the sea surface varies almost 200 meters with respect to an ellipsoid (see: http://kiska.giseis.alaska.edu/input/west/...ace_and_geoid/) On Mars the geoid (areoid) is even more irregular (ca 1000 meter), particularly around the the Tharsis bulge and the Hellas basin. To get a true map of shorelines you should drape the "water" over the areoid rather than the topography and then superimpose the result on a topographic map. Areoid maps are avalable from the PDS. tty |
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Mar 17 2006, 04:31 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
The Wikipedia section on Terraforming:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming Has two artworks of Mars if it had oceans: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mars_Terra.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Terrafo...ars_3_stage.jpg -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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