{"id":193,"date":"2020-10-06T01:01:09","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T01:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/texasstarcave.com\/?p=193"},"modified":"2020-10-07T03:38:18","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T03:38:18","slug":"mapping-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/texasstarcave.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/06\/mapping-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mars is a funny planet.\u00a0 What you see is not what you get.\u00a0 Most maps of Mars show the features of Mars as seen by NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars.\u00a0 What most astronomers actually see from Earth is the albedo of Mars &#8211; the light and dark patches that overlay those features.\u00a0 This map shows the albedo, with some of the major features labeled for reference.\u00a0 All the data is from NASA spacecraft and are provided courtesy NASA\/JPL-Caltech.\u00a0 NASA has an extensive library of images and tools.\u00a0 One of the more helpful tools is the <a href=\"https:\/\/trek.nasa.gov\/mars\/\">Mars Trek<\/a> tool.\u00a0 Anyway, feel free to download this low resolution map for your personal use.\u00a0 Just click on it to see it full sized, then right-click on the full sized image and select SaveImage As&#8230;\u00a0 I hereby grant individuals rights for personal use.\u00a0 If you want to purchase a full resolution version, let me know in the comments, or email.\u00a0 Thanks and enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mars is a funny planet.\u00a0 What you see is not what you get.\u00a0 Most maps of Mars show the features of Mars as seen by . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,34],"tags":[18,42],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-astrophotography-capture","category-new-stuff","tag-astrophotography","tag-mars"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/texasstarcave.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Mars-Map-v2-LowRes.jpg?fit=1440%2C720&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/texasstarcave.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/texasstarcave.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/texasstarcave.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texasstarcave.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texasstarcave.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/texasstarcave.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"https:\/\/texasstarcave.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texasstarcave.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/texasstarcave.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texasstarcave.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texasstarcave.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}