"A Beautifully Detailed New Geologic Map of Mars" Topic
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| Tango01 | 14 Jul 2014 10:39 p.m. PST |
"It took 16 years and data from four orbiting spacecraft to assemble, but the U.S. Geological Survey's new map of Mars is awesome. In beautiful color and excellent detail, the map shows the geology of the Red Planet's surface today, and reveals a new understanding of its past. Mars is Earth's most similar neighbor and the only other planet in our sun's habitable zone (orbits at the right distance to be a livable temperature and sustain liquid water). Humans have been studying the surface of Mars with ground-based telescopes for around 400 years. But it was the Mariner 9 mission and the Viking Orbiter missions that gave us our first global views of Mars and led to the first complete geologic maps of Mars (in 1978 and 1986-87)—the first of any planetary surface beyond Earth and the moon…"
Full article and map here.
link Agree. It's beautifull. Amicalement
Armand |
| skippy0001 | 15 Jul 2014 3:50 a.m. PST |
thanks-useful for more than one of my campaigns |
| Stealth1000 | 15 Jul 2014 4:52 a.m. PST |
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| RavenscraftCybernetics | 15 Jul 2014 5:08 a.m. PST |
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Frederick  | 15 Jul 2014 6:46 a.m. PST |
On the Periodic Table just above Neon |
 Legion 4  | 15 Jul 2014 7:55 a.m. PST |
What ?!?!? No Face, No Pyramids ?!?!?  |
| Sloppypainter | 15 Jul 2014 10:52 a.m. PST |
Shhhhhhhhhhhhh, Legion 4. Those are on the REAL map that the Government has is secret. This map is just for the masses. |
| Tango01 | 15 Jul 2014 11:22 a.m. PST |
Happy you enjoyed the map boys!. (smile). Amicalement
Armand |
| Legion 4 | 15 Jul 2014 1:04 p.m. PST |
The Truth is out there …  |
| Patrick Sexton | 15 Jul 2014 2:43 p.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 15 Jul 2014 11:25 p.m. PST |
No mention my friend!. (smile) Amicalement
Armand |
| tkdguy | 15 Jul 2014 11:39 p.m. PST |
Thanks, Tango. I can make good use of this in my SF campaign. |
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