[space2026]

Hi HN, we are a small team of space fans who simply wanted a better Mars map.

Read about our motivation and process here https://medium.com/mars26/the-most-detailed-mars-map-yet-717....

If you do want to keep up to date, feel free to follow us on Twitter. More features are in the pipeline https://twitter.com/marstwentysix

We love PRs and love to hear your feedback on https://github.com/mars-2026/mars26_com!

— Space P at Mars26.com

[billfruit]

What is the fundamental dataset used for it? In recent years more probes have done Mars imaging, which probe has given the highest resolution images?

[OmicronCeti]

They primarily use CTX, but HiRISE has the highest resolution, 0.25-0.5m/pixel.

[space2026]

Right. HiRISE is awesome, but covers only roughly 5% of Mars surface. Check the blog we posted above [1], it gives very detailed explanation on that.

[1] https://medium.com/mars26/the-most-detailed-mars-map-yet-717...

[monkeydust]

Kudos - awesome work guys - I am trying to find a good spot my great great great grandkids could build on :)

[space2026]

oh you will love the features we have on the backlog :)

[divbzero]

Awesome! Curious if the team has plans or interest in building an open-source high-res map of the Moon as well? Or does Google Moon avoid the low-res shortcomings of Google Mars?

[space2026]

There are great high-res maps of Moon out there already. E.g https://carto.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer3d/index.html Whereas for Mars somehow nobody had worked on it yet. That said, I could see us hosting a similar site for Moon, too!