My Apartment Manager is not a News Thread, #2

[robkelk]

Google Earth? Pah, now we've got a 3D version for Mars

Assembled by a team from Caltech.

"The scale of this is really unprecedented," said Jay Dickson, lab manager at Caltech's Bruce Murray Laboratory for Planetary Visualization. Dickson was the architect of the new map and kicked the project off in 2016 when Caltech tapped him to establish the Lab he now heads.

And unprecedented scale it has: if printed out at 300 dpi, Caltech said, the whole 5.7 trillion pixel image would be large enough to use as a sunshade for California's Rose Bowl Stadium, and part of the parking lot as well.

So, too big to keep in a gondola.