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[David]

I'm trying to track down a map of Mars for a friend who remembers seeing it years ago but no longer has a copy. As best as I can tell from the description, it was one of the earliest global maps made, and so presumably published soon after Mariner 9; and it seems to have been projected in two hemispheric maps, one centered on 0° longitude and the other on 180° longitude. I expect that if anyone can remember such a map, it would be somebody here. Many thanks in advance for any assistance.

[Guest_Myran_*]

Phil Stooke said: It was so early, Nostradamus must have had a hand in it.

I would rather have guessed freiherr Karl Friedrich Hieronymus von Münchhausen.

[Bob Shaw]

We've all seen the Stooke-O-Vision ™ exagerrated relief images of Mars (so much better than those old-fashioned Lovell-O-Gram © Lunar images) but now there's something better: 3-D 20x exagerrated relief *globes* of the Earth, Venus and Mars. The only problem is the cost: $600. Still, the Little Prince would be proud to live on such a body, and being an aristo he might have the cash to pay for it.

As they look exceptionally tactile, should they be described merely as being '3-D'? I toyed with names like 'Stooke-O-Fondle' but decided not to mention it, what with Phil's (ahem) 'enthusiasm' for Frankie Howerd and the like!

http://www.reliefglobe.com/

Bob Shaw

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