Martian Street View - Part Two

Back in February I worked with Map Channels to create this Martian Street View Map, using panoramas of Mars captured by NASA's Mars' missions.

Today I came across Mars Panoramas, which I think pre-dates my collaboration with Map Channels (it uses v2 of the Google Maps API). The Mars Panoramas use the same NASA 360 degree panoramas to, in effect, create a Street View map of Mars.

The Map Channels Martian Street View Map only really works in FireFox, as the images render a bit strangely in IE and Chrome. Mars Panoramas seems to work fine on all browsers and it looks to me that the images are of a much higher resolution as well

Martian Street View

A couple of week ago I started working on creating a Martian Street View Map using panoramas of Mars captured from NASA's Mars' missions.

I ran into a few problems with the map and more or less gave up on the project until Rob of Map Channels stepped in and kindly offered to help. Thanks to Rob we now have a working Martian Street View Map

There are a few problems with the map - all of which are due to me and are not a result of Rob's excellent work. I had a lot of difficulty working out where the panoramas should be located on the map - in fact I'm fairly certain I've actually put nearly all of them in the wrong place (if you spot errors in the geo-location of the images and know the correct latitude and longitude for Google Mars please let us know in the comments).

There are also some problems in the way different browsers display the panoramas. I think the Street Views should display properly in Firefox but may look strange in some versions of Chrome and Internet Explorer.

Martian Map

MARTIAN

First off, after yesterday's little red flying saucers story let me assure this isn't a map about little green men. In this case MARTIAN stands for MARs Tools for Interactive ANalysis. So whilst it isn't a map about little green men it is a map about everyone's favourite red planet.

MARTIAN uses the Google Maps API to create a topographical map of Mars. The map includes crustal thickness and Moho topography views. It is also possible to view normal faults and stress solutions.

MARTIAN also includes a number of links to locations on Mars. Clicking on one of the links will centre and zoom the map on that location.

Other Martian and Other Worldly Maps

• Google Mars - Google's own Mars map
• Modified Mars - a Google Map of Mars showing the planet in 2208 after it has been terraformed.
• Star Viewer - A map that geotags Hubblecast videos on a map of the night sky.
• HeyWhat'sThat Cosmic Visibility - generates a horizon view of the night sky for any given location.
• Hertszptung-Russell Diagram - an interactive Hertszprung Russell Diagram map of 3000 nearby stars.

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