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Mars Voyager

  • Mars as a rotatable 3D sphere

Mars Voyager Gamer Read Me - Web Page Mars Voyager Gamer Read Me - Source Code

Mars Rover

  • Mars as a 3D flat map

Mars Rover 128P - Demo - Dev version

Mars Rover Read Me - Web Page Mars Rover Read Me - Source Code

Mars Gazetteer

  • Text files with Mars place names, location and other data
  • Utilities for dealing with these files

Mars Gazetteer Read Me - Web Page Mars Gazetteer Read Me - Source Code

Mars Utilities

  • Node.js scripts for reading binary IMG heightmap files, creating PNG files and saving these to disk
  • Scripts for viewing and testing the files

Mars Utilities Read Me - Web Page Mars Utilities Read Me - Source Code

Mars Heightmaps

Perhaps the most important aspect of this project

  • Heightmaps for the Mars in a variety of sizes and formats

Mars Heightmaps Read Me - Web Page Mars Heightmaps Read Me - Source Code

  • Principle Mars Hightmap repository
  • Data for nearly the entire planet
    • Latitudes from 88 to -188
    • Longitudes from -180 to 180
  • Files organized by degrees
    • 360 folders with 176 files each
    • Every file is a PNG with 128 x 128 pixels
    • Every pixel represents a height
  • Nearly a gigabyte of heightmap data simply and freely accessible via GitHub
  • Data contained in a single repository

Mars Heightmaps 128P Read Me - Web Page Mars Heightmaps 128P Read Me - Source Code

Data courtesey of Planetary Data System Geosciences Node

And, more specifically, from this folder:

https://pds-geosciences.wustl.edu/mgs/mgs-m-mola-5-megdr-l3-v1/mgsl_300x/meg128/

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