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Re:Show HN: Open-source high-res Mars map, in natural colors by space2026 on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @12:42AM (#26965673)
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 date, feel free to follow us on Twitter. More features are in the pipeline https://twitter.com/marstwentysix

We love PRs and love to hear your feedback on https://github.com/mars-2026/mars26_com!

— Space P at Mars26.com

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Re:Show HN: Open-source high-res Mars map, in natural colors by billfruit on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @10:00AM (#26969459)
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?
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Re:Show HN: Open-source high-res Mars map, in natural colors by OmicronCeti on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @01:08PM (#26971691)
They primarily use CTX, but HiRISE has the highest resolution, 0.25-0.5m/pixel.
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Re:Show HN: Open-source high-res Mars map, in natural colors by space2026 on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @11:33PM (#26977139)
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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Re:Show HN: Open-source high-res Mars map, in natural colors by monkeydust on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @07:01AM (#26967959)
Kudos - awesome work guys - I am trying to find a good spot my great great great grandkids could build on :)
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Re:Show HN: Open-source high-res Mars map, in natural colors by space2026 on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @09:46AM (#26969285)
oh you will love the features we have on the backlog :)
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Re:Show HN: Open-source high-res Mars map, in natural colors by divbzero on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @04:15AM (#26966986)
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?
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Re:Show HN: Open-source high-res Mars map, in natural colors by space2026 on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @04:53AM (#26967200)
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 similar site for Moon, too!
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