{"id":1052,"date":"2016-02-28T12:43:31","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T17:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1052"},"modified":"2016-02-28T12:44:58","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T17:44:58","slug":"here-there-be-robots-eleanor-lutzs-map-of-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/02\/here-there-be-robots-eleanor-lutzs-map-of-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Here There Be Robots’: Eleanor Lutz’s Map of Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"medieval-mars\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Eleanor Lutz’s map of Mars<\/a> isn’t exactly\u00a0medieval in style (that’s not the right word for it), but it applies an ostensibly old aesthetic to a very modern map subject. “I\u00a0thought it would be fun to use their historical design style to illustrate our current adventures into unexplored territory. […]\u00a0Since the base map is hand-drawn I also added an overlay of actual NASA topographic imagery. This way even if some of my lines are a little off, you can still see what the actual ground looks like underneath.” Whatever you call it, it looks amazing.\u00a0[via<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eleanor Lutz’s map of Mars isn’t exactly\u00a0medieval in style (that’s not the right word for it), but it applies an ostensibly old aesthetic to a very modern map subject. “I\u00a0thought it would be fun to… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[295],"class_list":["post-1052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-astronomy","tag-mars","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1787433,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/06\/eleanor-lutzs-atlas-of-space\/","url_meta":{"origin":1052,"position":0},"title":"Eleanor Lutz’s Atlas of Space","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"14 June 2019","format":"link","excerpt":"Last week Eleanor Lutz, who gave us an old-style map of Mars in 2016 and a Goddesses of Venus map in 2017, announced her latest project: \"Over the past year and a half I\u2019ve been working on a collection of ten maps on planets, moons, and outer space. 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