MEXICO: NASA has launched a new website that lets you explore Mars through interactive map made up of images and data from the space agency, including rover mission photos.
NASA astronauts won’t be setting foot on Mars for at least another decade and a half, but that doesn’t mean we have to be all forlorn and Mars-less in the meantime.
NASA has released a new interactive map of the red planet that lets you explore Mars’ features. Called Mars Trek, it’s like the global roaming image service Google Earth for Mars. You can view the planet in both 2D and 3D, zooming in to get a closer look at the topography.
The planet is mapped, so that you can select or even search for places of note to visit. The app includes bookmarks of important sites, including the landing sites for all four of NASA’s Mars rovers (Sojourner, Spirit, Opportunity and Curiosity), as well as the Phoenix lander.
It also lets you zoom in and explore major features, such as Valles Marineris, a gash of canyons in the planet’s crust over 4,000 kilometres (2,485 miles long), probably caused by tectonic movements or the Kasei Valles, a system of channels 1,800 kilometres (1,118 miles) probably caused by flowing water.
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