Monday, 15 February 2016
While the British mapping agency Ordnance Survey is known for documenting the towns and cities on earth, it has gone above and beyond this time and created the first ever OS map of Mars. The map was created using open data from NASA and was published on the organization’s Flickr, as well as a one-off edition being printed for a British scientist working on a Mars Rover landing for 2019. The map covers an area of around 10 million square kilometres, which accounts for about 7 percent of Mars’ surface and equates to just under half the size of North…
This story continues at The Next Web
