A team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have some exciting ideas about the future of digital mapping for space exploration. They completed a paper titled ...
Data collected by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter allows users to explore Valles Marineris, "the Grand Canyon of Mars," on their smartphone. Viewing the Martian landscape is now easier than ever ...
The British mapping agency Ordnance Survey has created a map of the Martian surface using precision NASA data — and it's beautiful. PHOTOS: Tour 'The Martian' Movie Set… On Mars As an avid hiker when ...
Mars has hosted a surprising number of robotic visitors, yet the question of where humans should touch down remains wide open. As engineers refine maps of potential Mars landing sites, one location ...
Budding astronauts can now experience the sights and even the sounds of Mars as they "hike" across the red planet, thanks to a new interactive map from NASA. The vast map encompasses the areas ...
It’s hard to imagine that the cold, dusty, and desolate planet Mars once looked very different. Some 4 billion years ago, a thick atmosphere is thought to have protected its surface from damaging ...
With a veritable army of robots scanning its surface, Mars is the most surveilled planet after Earth. Those rovers and orbiters collect a mountain of image data, but very little is processed into an ...
When NASA’s Perseverance rover lands on Mars next year, it will be equipped with some of the most precise maps of Mars ever created, courtesy of the USGS Astrogeology Science Center. Not only are the ...