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by space2026 5y ago
Yea, that should be rather straight forward with the Esri API. We should be able to find some time to add it by next week.
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by space2026 5y ago
Yes, those are two really good points. What we do is first we have to find a middle ground on color, contrast, brightness between all Viking photographs. Because there are differences between each. Then we make a decision of what an average
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by 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-717...
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by space2026 5y ago
Right. It works in Chrome so far. Firefox blocks the Twitter part. We have opened an issue already and should be working on it soon.
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by space2026 5y ago
Thanks for the feedback! Yes, it is hard to get right. That's why neither NASA nor Google have a great blend. The artifacts should be mostly gone with our next version which we are rendering in the next few days. Greyish areas come fro
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by space2026 5y ago
Thanks! That's right. We did look into more open alternatives, but went with ArcGIS and spent our time on the image processing instead. Could be cool to build an alternative site eg. with Leaflet.
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by space2026 5y ago
oh you will love the features we have on the backlog :)
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by space2026 5y ago
Should be fixed for Safari now :)
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by space2026 5y ago
They are great! We use their public beta CTX images. When we contacted them, they said the blended CTX images will be out of beta by end of the year :)
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by space2026 5y ago
Good point. Google has two Mars Maps. Both are okay-ish. But not good enough really. Let me explain. Google Mars Maps[1] shows images from the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)[2], which produces grey scale and up to 1.5m per pixel. Not quite what
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by space2026 5y ago
Yes, we are hosting an WMTS server which serves images corresponding to a user's current coordinates and zoom level. One image of the whole surface in full-res would be about 150 GB.
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by 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 Whereas for Mars somehow nobody had worked on it yet. That said, I could see us hosting a s
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by space2026 5y ago
Thanks for the feedback! Added it to the list :) https://github.com/mars-2026/mars26_com/issues/4
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by space2026 5y ago
Nice idea! We'll add a feature layer with points of interest. Clicking the Twitter symbol should show you somebody's tweet on that position. Works in Chrome, and we'll add support for Firefox (soon) which currently blocks it
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by space2026 5y ago
Oh yea, noted. We'll update it today
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by space2026 5y ago
Well, it's technically possible to serve any feature layer via the API.. I'd assume there isn't that much traffic though. Although I've heard air traffic is picking up lately, even some nuclear-powered rovers
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by space2026 5y ago
Appreciate the feedback! I assume you mean the issue mentioned before[1]. We've opened an issue on github and will fix soon [1] https://github.com/mars-2026/mars26_com/issues/1
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by space2026 5y ago
Thanks! Great feedback. We've opened an issue and will fix soon https://github.com/mars-2026/mars26_com/issues/1
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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-717... . If you do want to keep up to dat
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Show HN: Open-source high-res Mars map, in natural colors(mars26.com)
150 points by space2026 5y ago|47 comments
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by space2026 5y ago
Interesting. I always wondered why IrfanView -> Image -> Convert to Grayscale doesn't look quite right