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NASA’s Mars Exploration Satellite Reveals Mars 3D Map Viewer

Mars Global CTX Mosaic [사진: 칼텍]

[디지털투데이 AI리포터] Online media Gigajin reported on the 15th (local time) that a service that allows you to see the surface of Mars in 3D has appeared.

The Bruce Murray Institute for Planetary Imaging at the California Institute of Technology has created a ‘Global CTX Mosaic of Mars’ showing Mars taken by the Mars Exploration Orbiter (MRO).Global CTX Mosaic of Mars) revealed.

By accessing the website, you can tour famous places on Mars, such as Olympus Mon, and lower the camera angle to observe the Martian surface in detail. You can move the map by dragging it and change the direction of the camera.

The photos were taken with a pixel precision of 5 meters (m) and were composed in three dimensions to match the elevation of the land.

For example, if you click on the Jezero icon, you can see Jezero Crater, where the Mars Exploration 2020 Perciverance spacecraft landed. The migration path of Perciverance is also marked in the crater.

Also, if you click Gale, you can see the Gale crater where the Mars Rover Curiosity landed in 2011 and Curiosity’s path.

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