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Hi HN, we are a small team of space fans who simply wanted a better Mars map. Read about our motivation and process here https://medium.com/mars26/the-most-det

by space2026 5y ago

Hi HN, we are a small team of space fans who simply wanted a better Mars map. Read about our motivation and process here https://medium.com/mars26/the-most-detailed-mars-map-yet-7170e0cc851b https://medium.com/mars26/the-most-detailed-mars-map-yet-717.... If you do want to keep up to date, feel free to follow us on Twitter. More features are in the pipeline https://twitter.com/marstwentysix https://twitter.com/marstwentysix We love PRs and love to hear your feedback on https://github.com/mars-2026/mars26_com https://github.com/mars-2026/mars26_com! — Space P at Mars26.com

divbzero 5y ago
Awesome! Curious if the team has plans or interest in building an open-source high-res map of the Moon as well? Or does Google Moon avoid the low-res shortcomings of Google Mars?
- space2026 5y ago
  There are great high-res maps of Moon out there already. E.g https://carto.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer3d/index.html https://carto.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer3d/index.html Whereas for Mars somehow nobody had worked on it yet. That said, I could see us hosting a similar site for Moon, too!
monkeydust 5y ago
Kudos - awesome work guys - I am trying to find a good spot my great great great grandkids could build on :)
- space2026 5y ago
  oh you will love the features we have on the backlog :)
billfruit 5y ago
What is the fundamental dataset used for it? In recent years more probes have done Mars imaging, which probe has given the highest resolution images?
- OmicronCeti 5y ago
  They primarily use CTX, but HiRISE has the highest resolution, 0.25-0.5m/pixel.
  - space2026 5y ago
    Right. HiRISE is awesome, but covers only roughly 5% of Mars surface. Check the blog we posted above [1], it gives very detailed explanation on that. [1] https://medium.com/mars26/the-most-detailed-mars-map-yet-7170e0cc851b https://medium.com/mars26/the-most-detailed-mars-map-yet-717...

divbzero 5y ago

Awesome! Curious if the team has plans or interest in building an open-source high-res map of the Moon as well? Or does Google Moon avoid the low-res shortcomings of Google Mars?

space2026 5y ago
There are great high-res maps of Moon out there already. E.g https://carto.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer3d/index.html https://carto.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer3d/index.html Whereas for Mars somehow nobody had worked on it yet. That said, I could see us hosting a similar site for Moon, too!

monkeydust 5y ago

Kudos - awesome work guys - I am trying to find a good spot my great great great grandkids could build on :)

space2026 5y ago
oh you will love the features we have on the backlog :)

billfruit 5y ago

What is the fundamental dataset used for it? In recent years more probes have done Mars imaging, which probe has given the highest resolution images?

OmicronCeti 5y ago
They primarily use CTX, but HiRISE has the highest resolution, 0.25-0.5m/pixel.
- space2026 5y ago
  Right. HiRISE is awesome, but covers only roughly 5% of Mars surface. Check the blog we posted above [1], it gives very detailed explanation on that. [1] https://medium.com/mars26/the-most-detailed-mars-map-yet-7170e0cc851b https://medium.com/mars26/the-most-detailed-mars-map-yet-717...