When the first astronauts land on Mars in about 20 years, they will have good tools to explore the planet. Using data provided by the High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) onboard ESA's Mars ...

The two maps, which are hosted on the agency's Flickr account, cover around 10 million square kilometers (3.8 million square miles). That's about 7 percent of Mars' surface.

The vast map encompasses the areas surrounding the landing site of NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover. Users can hike across and around the planet's Jezero crater using virtual reality, a regular ...

Ordnance Survey, Britain's national mapping agency, has created what might be the first map of Mars designed for the average person. The map charts a 2,281- by 1,690-mile expanse of the Red Planet.

The maps are a demonstration of the kind of products that can be derived from the HRSC experiment. The HRSC is on the way to providing enough data to create such maps for the whole of Mars. This ...

Bummer. Still, the OS map certainly shows how we can view the alien terrain in a more familiar, terrestrial light — especially if it can be adapted for future Martian use. Mark Watney would approve.

The map shows 3,672 by 2,721 kilometers (2,282 by 1,691 miles) on Mars at a scale of 1 to 4 million. The purpose of it, apart from being a bit of fun, was to show that maps like this might be ...

Mars has an impressive terrain that rivals that of Earth’s. It boasts the tallest mountain in the Solar System, Olympus Mons, which stands at 16 miles — or nearly 26 kilometers — high.

Here’s how it works. SWIM's latest map of where water ice is likely to be located on Mars. Blue areas represent positive locations. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Planetary Science Institute) ...

NASA has an algorithm called SPOC (Soil Property and Object Classification), which labels different types of Mars terrain such as boulders or sand to create maps that the rover driver can use when ...

So it recently awarded a grant to a Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) researcher to develop better computer terrain maps of the surface of Earth and even our moon or Mars.

There are no plans yet to create topographic maps of the entire planet, but it would be a prerequisite of any manned mission to Mars. "If we want to put people on the surface," he says, "this is ...