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Expertly designed by Edward R. Hobbs
Explore Mars with a click of your mouse! Click on the image of Mars, and it
will be redrawn with the selected point at the center of the view. Click on the
button beneath the image to toggle the names of surface features and landing sites
on and off.
Night and day areas will be recalculated every five minutes to keep up with the
planet's rotation.
Acknowledgments
The longitude calculation of the sunlight angle is based in part on a formula derived by
Jim Scarborough.
The image of the Martian surface was developed from a mosaic of images transmitted by the
two Viking orbiters. Information on names and locations of surface features and landing sites was found at the
PDS Mars Explorer
for the Armchair Astronaut at http://pdsimage.wr.usgs.gov/PDS/public/mapmaker/mapmkr.htm.
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