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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