If you want to go on a hike with the Perseverance rover, now is the time. Researchers have created an interactive map of Mars that will allow you to wander around the planet and follow the rovers path.
The rover's path and current position are shown on the map. You can zoom in and see the views of Mars from a panoramic view.
Sebastian Walter presented the map at the congress.
Walter said that the map was the ideal tool for planning a future visit to Mars. If you want to avoid using too much oxygen, watch out for the steep slopes. If you have a Virtual Reality setup, you can click on one of the waypoint marker symbols to enter either a full screen 3D view or a fully immersed environment. If you're close by, you can hear the sounds of the rover.
The base layer of the map is made up of data recorded by Perseverance, like the images from its Mastcam-Z camera and the sounds from its SuperCAM instrument, as well as data taken from satellites. High-resolution images of the surface are captured by both the European Space Agency's Mars Express and NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
The map was originally designed for professional scientists, but as they added more data the research team realized it would be fun for the public to access
The Jezero map was created as an outreach application to complement the HRSC Mapserver tool. As the rover returns more and more high-resolution image data and even audio recordings, it becomes the perfect tool for immersive visualization of that data in a scientific context by itself.
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