Colored, shaded relief of the entire planet, derived from the Murray Lab 5 m CTX global mosaic — the same tiles that stream into Google Earth, here in the browser. No people to count on this one. Yet. How this map was made.
About. Global colored relief of Mars rendered from a 7 m-resolution terrain model (method), built on the Bruce Murray Lab 5 m CTX global mosaic. Imagery: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems; mosaic: Caltech Murray Lab; terrain & render: Casey Handmer. The streamed pyramid shown here resolves ~7 m/px at full zoom. For the Google Earth version, download the KML.