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This is the map I made for the Terraformed Mars image, I figured I'll release it to the public since I will be making a new 16k one for a new image soon.Related content
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Venus is VERY flat compared to earth or mars. It would mostly be a shallow sea with lots of archipelagos.
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What exactly are you looking for? I don't have any vector versions of this.
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What was the topographic map you used to make this?
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From MOLA I think. It was quite some time ago and I don't recall clearly.
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Amazing work ! I'm very interrested by your work. I need some information for a personal project: can you tell me which softwares do you uses ? How can you make planet map with differents stages of terraformation ? (and how you create terraformed planet maps, if you can) 
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Phototshop, I also used a plugin called Flexify. Besides that, hard work and attention to detail 
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Thanks a lot for your answer !
Do you use a normal map to have Mars relief to generate the water level ?
And... for example, if you want to create the map of a fictive planet, how would you create the "un-terraformed" map ? With which software and how ?
I made something with a website, but I don't know how to make that more photorealistic like your work, do you have a mail adress ? I would want to show you
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My work almost always requires an elevation (topography) map. The more detailed the better. If I'm making a world that doesn't actually exist like my river or ammonia world images then I begin with building and elevation map and base everything else on that. Obtaining or making a good elevation map is probably the most important step.
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Ok ! Thanks !
And to make an elevation map, which software do you use ? (and with which method ?)
Sorry for these many questions but I have a personal project ^^
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Photoshop mostly, it depends on the nature of the image. Methods vary depending what my goal is. One of the most important things about making images like mine is being able to come up with new techniques on the fly.
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Are the darker areas forest and the lighter areas grasslands?
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Dark area usually just mean rough terrain. However since Mars would have varied landscape grass land would no doubt be lighter in color as well.
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Ah, okay. Could it have forests though? If so, I bet it would be mostly conifers.
On the grasslands, I can imagine herds of yaks numbering into the millions, like bison did in the early 1800s.
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Like I mentioned in my other comment I think that would depend. If done right you could have a climate very similar to Earth. Where I live receives a similar amount of sunlight as the equator of Mars and the trees are mostly deciduous. So I think the equator of Mars would be temperate as a worst case scenario.
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why alba patera is green?isn't that volcano 8 kilometers high?.
but the concept is well done i would like to live on the shore of Hellas Sea or near Mons Olympus,or in the canyons of Valles Marineris.
i assume that Mons Olympus will be huge seen from the surface,snowy with permanent clouds covering its summit.
the average temperature on terraformed mars?
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Thanks. I'm assuming 1 bar surface pressure. So the atmosphere would be much deeper than Earth's. I'm also assuming a near Earth normal temp. Mars receives much lower solar energy than Earth, but that could be compensated for with more green house gases.
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The big one would probably be the Hellas sea and the small one would probably the Argyre sea. Although people may prefer to call them lakes. Since they wouldn't drain to the great northern ocean so I think they would be salty. They could be bigger or smaller than depicted here depending on how much water is flowing in to them and how dry it is.
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If Mars would be terraformed for the long term, it might be useful to build a deepwater link (canal) to Argyre. Ideally to Hellas too but I don't think the latter would be practical even from a planetary engineering standpoint.
Processed comet material, (at the same time delivering volatiles like water, methane and ammonia to the planet) could be used to direct a series of sequential impacts to "dig" a canal from the northern seas to Argyre. With oblique impacts it should leave them mostly free of obstacles, although humans would still have to complete the canal for proper water flow. Such a connection- especially a deep water one would allow for better heat exchange to help optimize the planet's climate. The south pole ice-and-tundra area would likely be larger than the north given land tends to be colder, even with an atmosphere that is deeper, a connection to the northern waters would allow Argyre to reduce that better than it would on its own.
It would be nice to have Hellas connected in a similar way but realistically, with the large extent of land between it and the northern seas, and the fact that land has a decent altitude to it... (more material to move) it would be a nearly impossible feat even using comets as earth movers. Or it could be done if humans were willing to wait longer to inhabit the planet... a more sustained bombardment, multiple passes in some areas.
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Think the lakes should be freshwater?
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Lakes without outflows tend to become salty. Think of the great salt lake in utah, and the dead sea in Israel/Jordan. Most lakes have outflows. I think the same would be true on Mars. Although in the southern hemisphere on Mars many times the only place the water will have to go is the Hellas and Argyre basins. So they would probably be salty. Maybe even more salty than the northern ocean.
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Dang, talk about a waste.
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You never know ocean fish may still be able to survive in them. They just wouldn't be drinkable
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Well, the Dead Sea was once a good fishing spot 'til humans messed it up.
What would the weather at the equator be like? Would be like the equivalent of being in a valley, if the rest of the planet is like being in the mountains?
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The dead sea has a varied history, it used to be a bay that got pinched off from the ocean. Then the ground level fell causing the water to get trapped. Basically any body of water where the water flows in, but doesn't flow out gets salty. So I have a feeling the large basins on Mars would be hydrologically oceans, like the dead sea and the salt lake.
Hard to say. Depends on the method used to terraform and how much insulation the planet has. The equator of Mars receives a similar amount of light as Earth does at temperate latitudes. So worst case scenario would be the cold jungles of southern south america.
In my depiction I assume surface pressure of 1atm. Because of Mars lower gravity this would mean you'd need a lot more air to get the same pressure. Probably 3 times more but I haven't done the math in awhile, so I may be misremembering and that number could be wrong. At any rate that would mean more insulation and higher temperatures than you'd expect. I suspect with proper engineering Mars could have a similar climate to Earth. Due to the lower average sunlight plants would grow a bit more slowly, but that wouldn't be a big deal due to the seasons which last twice as long.
The northern hemishpere would most likely be wet due to the northern ocean, but the southern hemisphere would probably be a vast desert for the most part. I don't think the moisture from the north would make it past the equator.
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Ah, I see.
Cold jungles of southern america? Interesting.
Ah, alright. If I remember, a Martian year is almost twice as long as an Earth year?
Wow, talk about half and half.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magellan…
Since there is less land in the southern hemisphere the temps down there tend to be more mild even if it's just as cold on average. If it were cold that's what Mars equator may look like since it receives a similar amount of light as Mars' equator.
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I think it lacks a big ice chunk on the top of the Tharsis area. The Tharsian volcanoes, sure would be frozy, but Tharsis is very, very high. I think it would look like Antartica 100 years after the athmosphere became thick enough, an ice mantle spreading from Alba Patera to Noctis Labitynthus.
Also, why flooding the entire Argyre basin? Mars would have no rivers (at first) and all the water wuld come from the molten Northern Pole. The water would have no way to reach Argyre. The same for all the flooded craters in Cydonia.
But don't take it wrong, I like it very, very much! It's much more realistic than many I've seen around. And anyway, I'm making my own map of pre-terraformed Mars and it's not much realistic either xD
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This image assumes 1 bar pressure at the surface. That would mean the atmosphere would have to be 9 times the depth as Earth's atmosphere. The air would still be fairly thick at comparably very high altitudes on Earth. Only the highest peaks would have snow on them.
This image also assumes Mars at it's final state. Not some state in between. Water would flow naturally into these places as rain.
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Ok, understood. Thanks for explaining.
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did use this for his map? And may I use this for the base of a map I'm making of Mars?
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Don't know what he did. If he did he didn't ask me. You can use it if you like.
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i realy wish i knew how to make my own planet textures can u give me any clues as to how u make them please???
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Basically I make large realistic mats of each terrain type. Then layer them in Photoshop and use a height map to help guide me where I should put the holes in the mats to create realistic textures.
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hmmmmm it kinda helps thank u though
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yeah i know it is... that is y i just use satellite images for my maps right now
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Very good! I love it!
But... shouldn't the upper parts of the four shield volcanoes be too high for glaciers to form? I always imagined the glaciers on those mountains to be like white rings dividing the terraformed Mars below from the almost unchanged Red Mars of the calderas above.
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Most people when they think about terraforming Mars think of Earth's atmosphere, but assuming 1 bar surface pressure (which I do for this map) Mars' atmosphere would be much deeper due to the lower gravity and more gas needed to get the 1 bar pressure.
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I think you might find this interesting.
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All my maps on here are equirectangular projection.
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