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Water oceans on mars?, Images of different water oceans on mars based on MGS MOLA instrument.
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post 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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post Mar 17 2006, 01:57 PM
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QUOTE (Magnus Lundstedt @ Mar 15 2006, 12:20 AM) *
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.

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post Mar 17 2006, 04:31 PM
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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


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- Magnus Lundstedt   Water oceans on mars?   Mar 14 2006, 11:20 PM
- - ElkGroveDan   QUOTE (Magnus Lundstedt @ Mar 14 2006, 11...   Mar 15 2006, 01:36 AM
|- - RNeuhaus   Very interesting pictures and these give us the id...   Mar 15 2006, 01:56 AM
|- - Magnus Lundstedt   QUOTE (ElkGroveDan @ Mar 15 2006, 02:36 A...   Mar 15 2006, 08:09 AM
|- - helvick   QUOTE (Magnus Lundstedt @ Mar 15 2006, 08...   Mar 15 2006, 08:20 AM
- - Richard Trigaux   Interesting work! But to be noted that, Mars ...   Mar 15 2006, 08:27 AM
|- - Magnus Lundstedt   QUOTE (Richard Trigaux @ Mar 15 2006, 09...   Mar 15 2006, 09:49 AM
- - Richard Trigaux   There are still many things strange and unknown ab...   Mar 15 2006, 11:56 AM
|- - Magnus Lundstedt   Yeah I have seen those. But what I dont understand...   Mar 15 2006, 01:49 PM
|- - Richard Trigaux   QUOTE (Magnus Lundstedt @ Mar 15 2006, 02...   Mar 15 2006, 03:29 PM
|- - Magnus Lundstedt   QUOTE (Richard Trigaux @ Mar 15 2006, 04...   Mar 15 2006, 04:23 PM
|- - RNeuhaus   QUOTE (Richard Trigaux @ Mar 15 2006, 10...   Mar 17 2006, 12:55 AM
|- - Richard Trigaux   QUOTE (RNeuhaus @ Mar 17 2006, 01:55 AM) ...   Mar 17 2006, 07:57 AM
|- - RNeuhaus   QUOTE (Richard Trigaux @ Mar 17 2006, 02...   Mar 17 2006, 09:03 AM
|- - Bob Shaw   QUOTE (Richard Trigaux @ Mar 17 2006, 07...   Mar 17 2006, 09:03 AM
- - David   You can play a similar game over at Viktor Toth...   Mar 15 2006, 01:58 PM
|- - Magnus Lundstedt   QUOTE (David @ Mar 15 2006, 02:58 PM) You...   Mar 15 2006, 02:25 PM
- - tty   QUOTE (Magnus Lundstedt @ Mar 15 2006, 12...   Mar 17 2006, 01:57 PM
- - ljk4-1   The Wikipedia section on Terraforming: http://en....   Mar 17 2006, 04:31 PM

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