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Published: 2010-02-17 00:04:15 +0000 UTC; Views: 11927; Favourites: 111; Downloads: 1304
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A reduced version of the map I used to make the ancient Mars image.Related content
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Is it possible to get the full res version of this map?
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Yes, give me some time though, I have to upload them somewhere since they are huge. Β I'll PM you when I've got it all together.
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Thank you very much! If you need a place to upload them to, you could try Sta.sh
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I'd love to take a gander at the full-res version myself.
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We'll have to wait and see.
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awesome pictureΒ
i heard that mars 4 billion years ago Mars wasn't thick with red dust,but that was white-colored
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Well I didn't make it red, but I've never heard it was white (besides snow maybe).Β You have any sources for that?Β Thanks
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gizmodo.com/5974188/mars-is-acβ¦
www.news.com.au/technology/dusβ¦
i think that it could be quartz,very common on earth,or pomice,due or the fact Mars was a very volcanicallyΒ active Β planet,or ChalkΒ
there's even some fan art of mars white(not snow)
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Hmm I'll have to look around and too see if there is evidence the whole planet what white and not just that area.
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I used photoshop.Β Although just about any program that uses layers may work.
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I wish I had a skill to create things like this. What I am doing to create a satellite image of a planet is just putting colours.
I need to learn from you! 
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Thanks, though your art is way better than anything I could do. We all have our own skills I suppose.
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i love this! nice to see that someone has been true to ancient mars' probable topography!!!! any chance of seeing it in higher resolution???
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I accuracy here probably isn't extremely high. I took a regular Mars topomap and erased the features that weren't supposed to exist yet. The cratering is probably quite inaccurate. I do have a much higher resolution version of this image which I used to make this: [link] image. If you really want it I'm sure I can get it to you some how, but I don't want you distributing it.
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thanks. i wasnt thinking of distributing it, i just thought it might look nice in a real-time program called "orbiter", which uses hi res images, thats all.
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...but if u dont feel comfortable putting the hi res image up i understand.
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hay i used this map of an animation if that is okay with you
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no problem, you have a link to the animation?
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okay i will... the last few seconds are all derpy though and i was to lazy to fix them
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hay is it okay for me to use this map for some thing
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I absolutely love it. It's really nice to see someone pays a lot of attention to science when portraying prehistoric Mars. I also see Valles Marineras still has to form by this period.
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I hope I'm not bothering you with these recent comments, but I have one quibble about this map. More of a question really.
When I did my own Mars maps, I left large parts of the Tharsis Bulge bare of vegetation and snow/ice, a lot like your other Mars map. Is it even possible for snow to fall at such high altitude and thin air? I honestly don't know, so I guessed no.
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The altitudes weren't as high back then. Most of the very high mountains had yet to form. Additionally I think that Valles Marineris, which formed during the end of this period, is strong evidence of a giant glacier covering the Tharsis region. This page is where I got most of my data: [link]
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Wow, looks like you decided to flood Elysium.
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Yeah, despite popular belief, someone at NASA does have a sense of humor.
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How ancient is the map? I mean how long ago is Mars to have looked similar to this?
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Three billion years as I recall. I tried to get it just before Mars' ocean started to evaporate.
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