Image credit: China National Space Administration.

The Mars topography map is the first topography and geomorphology image map taken by the navigation terrain camera after the rover reaches the surface of Mars. The image shows that the terrain near the landing site is flat, the Martian horizon can be seen in the distance, and the abundance and size of the rocks are consistent with expectations, indicating that the autonomous selection of the landing site and the implementation of hovering obstacle avoidance are effective. The panoramic view of the landing site (Utopia Planitia of Mars) is a 360 degrees ring shot taken by the navigation terrain camera on the mast of Zhurong, the Chinese Mars rover of Tianwen-1, after correction and mosaic stitching. Mike sent posted this landscape in the forums. Mars rover Spirit made this image during August 24 to 27, 2005. Johan transformed this Mars image from NASA into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. Set the projection mode to stereographic, zoom out to a wide field of view and point down towards the ground to get the nice rounded “planet” effect. Landscape made using some screen shots and data from the wonderful Celestia. This landscape is made using NASA photographs taken by Gene Cernan. Look down and you can see Buzz’s footprints :) This landscape is made using NASA photographs taken by Buzz Aldrin.

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