The map is meant as more than just a fun stunt: The idea is to imagine how maps might be designed to help astronauts when they're actually on the surface of Mars.

Mars Map Shows Where Astronauts Should Build Space Colony. ... "We see high temperatures or calcium levels and a relatively flat terrain as positive," researcher Line Schug said in the university ...

I have always loved geometrical things. As a kid I was fascinated by map projections. When I was 14, I made a painted globe of Mars based on a flat Mercator Mars map by the astronomer E. M. Antoniadi.

The UK's mapping agency has created an easy-to-read map of Mars. Well known for its detailed maps of Britain, the one-off creation could help in the planning of future rover landings – and ...

The pancake map also has smaller distance errors than any other 2D flat map. For instance, its configuration means distances can't be more or less than 22.2% of what they are in reality, Gott said.

For the first time Britain’s major mapping agency has created a map truly out of this world, because it’s of Mars.For those of us who still keep a Rand McNally Road Atlas in their cars the ...

British mapping agency Ordnance Survey has gone above and beyond this time and created the first ever OS map of Mars. Skip to content. Toggle Navigation. News Events. TNW Conference June 19 ...

The map covers around 10 million square kilometres -- around 7 percent of the total surface of Mars.. Alongside its digital publication, the map has also been printed in a one-off edition intended ...

For us, the image shows one of the strangest things Mars ever threw at us: a replica of Earth’s continents, as seen on a flat map of our planet, spread out over the Martian surface.

A special version's been given to a British scientist helping to plan the landing of a rover on Mars in 2019. The map covers roughly 3.8 million square miles of the planet - that's about a tenth ...

The map, dubbed Mars Trek 2.0, provides an explanation for key points in the Mark Watney's 2,000 mile (3,200km) journey towards the Schiaparelli crater.

SPAID has developed a suite of tools that transform traditional flat maps into rich, interactive, 3D environments. These […] ...