{"id":1813940,"date":"2023-04-12T18:32:46","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T22:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1813940"},"modified":"2023-04-12T18:32:46","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T22:32:46","slug":"a-martian-mosaic-at-five-metres-per-pixel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/04\/a-martian-mosaic-at-five-metres-per-pixel\/","title":{"rendered":"A Martian Mosaic at Five Metres per Pixel"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Global<\/a><\/p>\n

The Global CTX Mosaic of Mars<\/a>, produced by CalTech\u2019s Bruce Murray Laboratory for Planetary Visualization<\/a>, is a 5.7-terapixel mosaic of the Martian surface at a resolution of five metres per pixel. The mosaic is available in a number of different formats (via ArcGIS Online, KML, shapefiles), as well as via this online viewer<\/a>; and the Lab is quite transparent about how they constructed it from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Context Camera (CTX)<\/a> data. [Maps Mania<\/a>\/La Cartoteca<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Global CTX Mosaic of Mars, produced by CalTech\u2019s Bruce Murray Laboratory for Planetary Visualization, is a 5.7-terapixel mosaic of the Martian surface at a resolution of five metres per pixel. 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