Fancy A Walk On Mars?

[mosaix]

New Mars map could provide directions for a visitor's walk on the red planet

The British mapping agency Ordnance Survey has created an easy-to-read map of Mars’ surface using Nasa open data.

The map – posted to Flickr on Friday – covers 3.8m sq miles or approximately 7% of the red planet’s surface. It was produced to a scale of one to 4m.

The landing sites of past rovers are featured on the map, including the Mars Pathfinder in north-west Ares Vallis and the Opportunity rover, east of Margaritifer Terra.

Cartographic designer Chris Wesson “designed the map over a couple of months”, according to the Ordnance Survey blog. It is the first landscape the agency has mapped from another planet.

Now all we've got to do is get there...

 

[J Riff]

We meaning the general public.... not. Probably never, because a virtual tour will be safe, going there in numbers could be very bad - for the planet Mars.
I think the outpouring of Mars info will continue. Remember that NASA have never called the shots, they are releasing what they are allowed to show, all along. Why, if (rant deleted) and furthermore, can you imagine Mars overrun with people like the Earth is? Ech. It really works as an alien planet, sure would be dull if humans got settled there and started up with their nonsense, like land-grabbing and pollution and houses, TVs and the internet...