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Item created: Apr 13, 2016 Item updated: Apr 15, 2016 View count: 29,179
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Is there life on Mars? It depends how you interpret the question.
The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one according to Jeff Wayne. To date, the human species has yet to find evidence of biological life on Mars but we persist in our efforts to try and establish whether we are alone in the universe. The Curiosity lander has found evidence of flowing water which has certainly whetted our appetite further.
This map paints a picture of Mars and all that we, as a species, have done to explore that far away fiery red planet. We've certainly been enthralled about our distant neighbour and taken life TO Mars through various space missions and astronomical observations. So yes, there is life on Mars...life that we've applied through landing man-made craft and through naming features.
The map can be explored simply through pan and zoom but every crater that is marked by an abstract symbol can also be clicked to find out more about the feature.
Spacecraft landings and their details are also shown through the surface plaque screwed to the Martian surface. CLick to reveal details of the landings (or crashes).
Of course, Mars has been mapped many times before. Giovanni Schiaparelli's map from 1880 maps classical albedo features based on his own astronomical observations. His initial naming conventions names 'seas' and 'channels'. Of course, USGS has it's own official topographic maps of mars. More recently, Chris Wesson's map in the style of an Ordnance Survey sheet presented the Martian landscape in an alternative way. Eleanor Lutz map is also of a small extract of part of the planet, hand-drawn in a medieval styled effort. On these, and many other, maps of Mars, landscape features are named using the following conventions.
| Singlar | Plural | Descriptor |
| Catena | catenae | A chain of craters |
| Cavus | cavi | Hollows, irregular steep-sided depressions usually in arrays or clusters |
| Chaos | chaoses | A distinctive area of broken or jumbled terrain |
| Chasma | chasmata | Deep, elongated, steep-sided depression |
| Collis | colles | A collection of small hills or knobs |
| Crater | craters | A circular depression likely created by impact event. |
| Dorsum | dorsa | Ridge, sometimes called a wrinkle ridge |
| Fluctus | fluctūs | Terrain covered by outflow of liquid |
| Fossa | fossae | Long, narrow, shallow depression |
| Labes | labēs | Landslide debris |
| labyrinthus | labyrinthi | Complex of intersecting valleys or ridges |
| Lingula | lingulae | Tongue of land |
| Mensa | mensae | A flat-topped prominence with cliff-like edges |
| Mons | Mountain | |
| Montes | Mountain range | |
| Palus | paludes | Small plain |
| Patera | paterae | Irregular crater, or a complex one with scalloped edges |
| Planitia | planitiae | Low plain |
| Planum | plana | A plateau or high plain |
| Rupes | rupēs | Scarp |
| Scopulus | scopuli | Irregular Slope |
| Serpens | serpentes | Sinuous feature with segments of positive and negative relief along its length |
| Sulcus | sulci | Subparallel furrows and ridges |
| Terra | terrae | Extensive land mass |
| tholus | tholi | Small domical mountain or hill |
| Unda | undae | A field of dunes |
| Vallis | valles | A valley |
| Vastitas | vastitates | An extensive plain |
Large craters are named after deceased scientists who have contributed to the study of Mars; writers and others who have contributed to the lore of Mars.
Small craters are named after villages of the world with a population of less than 100,000.
Multiscale map from 1:73million to 1: 4million. Contour interval is 1000m at maps largest scale.
Projection: Mars 2000 Equidistant Cylindrical (based on Plate Carrée)
Elevation data from the Mars Orbitor Laser Altimeter (MOLA) instrument on the MGS (NASA/JPL/GSF) at approximately 463m/px.
Official IAU/USGS approved nomenclature from the MRCTR GIS lab (USGS).
Landing site data from NASA.
Read this far? There's a hidden element on the map that explains why I really made it. Happy hunting. Let me know if you find it at @kennethfield.
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