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[jekbradbury]

Download: Google Earth 5 w/Mars
An early overview is available here.

This is exactly what I've been waiting for ever since Google Earth came out five years ago. And HiRISE integration is amazing.

[Geert]

It's still a bit experimental, but below kml should give a 'drivability map' (12 mtr grid variance) on Google Mars for the whole area from Endurance down to Endeavour at 2 mtr resolution (you can zoom down lower but then you might get small offset errors).
Light green is best, green is good, blue is 'be careful', red is potentially hazardous (settings are a bit on the 'safe' side so there are many 'fals alarms' but those area's can only be judged at ground level).

It still takes a bit of time to load (and I hope my webserver survives), next version I will add more levels to make it load faster. On the area's where Google Mars does not give HiRise coverage there is a slight offset, I won't be so pretentious to say that this is due to Google Mars but they seem to be using some kind of projection for those area's which not completely matches my own.

Next versions of this I will post in the 'Google Mars' thread so as not to clutter up this thread

Remember you need to open Google Mars first before opening the kml, otherwise it opens somewhere on earth and weird things might happen. After opening the kml you need to go to Victoria crater to see the map.

Regards,

Geert.

 HR___MOC_Variance_Drivability_Map.kml ( 562bytes ) Number of downloads: 501


EDIT: UPDATED AND FASTER VERSION UPLOADED ON 20/04