The Global CTX Mosaic of Mars

The Bruce Murray Laboratory for Planetary Visualization has completed a 5.7 terapixel mosaic of the surface of Mars rendered at 5.0 m/px. Each pixel in the mosaic is about the size of a typical parking space, providing unprecedented resolution of the martian surface at the global scale.

The mosaic covers 99.5% of Mars from 88°S to 88°N. The pixels that make up the mosaic can all be mapped back to their source data, providing full traceability for the entire mosaic. The mosaic is available to stream over the internet and to download, as described below.

All data in the mosaic come from the Context Camera (CTX) onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).

https://murray-lab.caltech.edu/CTX/V01/SceneView/intro_c.html

Brilliant, ta.

Don’t think I want to move there though.

The Rev Dodgson said:

Don’t think I want to move there though.

There’d be no coming back.

roughbarked said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Don’t think I want to move there though.

There’d be no coming back.

In fact it’s cold as hell.

SCIENCE said:

roughbarked said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Don’t think I want to move there though.

There’d be no coming back.

In fact it’s cold as hell.

It’s easy to create heat. On Mars, cold is not really a problem.

Starvation would be more of a problem.

mollwollfumble said:

SCIENCE said:

roughbarked said:

There’d be no coming back.

In fact it’s cold as hell.

It’s easy to create heat. On Mars, cold is not really a problem.

Starvation would be more of a problem.

… all this SCIENCE we don’t understand.

Been exploring this mosaic tonight, it’s incredible.

Bubblecar said:

Been exploring this mosaic tonight, it’s incredible.

Agree.

Lots of interesting stuff here. The high cratering density – but not everywhere.
Valles Marineris in particular is spectacular, and free from craters.
Medusae Fossae came as a complete surprise to me.

Curiosity rover is still a long way short of Mount Sharp summit. It spent forever in that sand pit.