Maps that explain the World
In 1877, the Italian cosmologist Giovanni Schiaparelli published a map of Mars. On this map, the planet’s surface was crisscrossed by straight lines from 60° north to 60° south latitude, each rod-straight and up to thousands of miles long. Schiaparelli called these lines “Canali”, Italian for “channel”. This was incorrectly translated into English as “canals”.
Read more
Mars is home to dizzyingly tall mountains and deep canyons. Olympus Mount the tallest mountain in the Solar system it’s about two and a half times taller than Mount Everest.
Read moreValles Marineris is the most prominent tectonic feature on Mars, consisting of troughs up to 4000 km (2,500 mi) in length, 200 (120 mi) km in width, and 10 km (6.3 mi) in depth. It’s the largest canyons in the solar system.
Read more
The two polar ice caps seem to be made mostly of water. If only the south polar ice cap melted water cover Marse’s surface to a depth of 11 metres (36 feet).
Read more