{"id":1789746,"date":"2020-12-02T09:59:59","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T14:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1789746"},"modified":"2020-12-02T09:59:59","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T14:59:59","slug":"fifteen-ways-to-depict-elevation-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/12\/fifteen-ways-to-depict-elevation-on-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifteen Ways to Depict Elevation on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"

How do you depict elevation on a map of Mars? Earlier this year, Daniel Huffman posted a roundup of hypsometric tints for Mars<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I have a peculiar hobby of collecting Martian hypsometric tinting schemes: those sets of colors that cartographers use to depict elevations on the Red Planet. It\u2019s a fascinating cartographic frontier<\/strong>. While the classic (and somewhat flawed) way of showing Earth\u2019s elevations is to use a color scheme that starts with green lowlands, and then proceeds through some combination of brown\/yellow\/orange\/red until it reaches white in the highest areas, there\u2019s no standard yet for Mars. Maybe centuries from now, one of the schemes below will become that standard.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Huffman looks at fifteen schemes in total in the post, and in this video on YouTube<\/a>:<\/p>\n