http://fi-www.arc.nasa.gov/fia/projects/bayes-group/Atlas/Mars/ (World Wide Web Directory, 06/1995)

Mars Atlas home page

Atlas of Mars

and Viking Orbiter image-finder

Sorry, your browser apparently doesn't support inline images, so you won't be able to use the atlas.

A WWW-browsable, zoomable and scrollable atlas of Mars, showing the locations (footprints) of thousands of high-resolution Viking Orbiter images.

Version 1.0.7

System requirements

This tool is designed for systems with a color screen (8 or 24 bit) and a fast network connection, with Mosaic and optionally an external viewer that displays PDS images. See details.

Special focus areas

Other planets

See one level up for image finders for other planets.

Is this atlas what you're looking for?

This atlas has complete coverage of Mars as grayscale maps at 1/16 degree/pixel, and may let you download 1/256 degree/pixel maps and some raw Viking Orbiter images. It also points to color maps of all of Mars. Keep in mind that raw Viking Orbiter images are unprocessed. If you don't have a particular site in mind and are interested in seeing just a few good pictures of Mars in general, you might the excellent collections of interesting color images listed below.

Other collections of Mars images

JPL's "Welcome to Mars" page
"Views of the Solar System" by Calvin J. Hamilton of Los Alamos
NSSDC Photo Gallery
Center for Mars Exploration
If you're looking for surface images instead of orbital images, see the Viking Lander image finder at JPL.

To get started:

Click on the method you prefer to use for locating the area you want:

Find the desired spot on a map of all of Mars and click on it.
- Small, 600x300-pixel map (faster, less detailed) [99K]
- Large, 1440x720-pixel map (slower, more detailed) [694K]
Choose from a list of feature names.
Look up an image by its id, if you know it:
- by typing the image id into a form (not yet available)
- by orbit number with the directory browser

Known problems

Map sections at latitudes beyond 45S-45N don't fit together with map sections to the north and south. It's not always noticable, but in some places it's very bad. I plan to fix this (as much as it can be fixed).
Links to color composites on CD-ROM ought to be moved to separate pages so that (on 8-bit X systems) the document doesn't hog the colormap, making for a bad quality reproduction. (Workaround: select Display/Perfect Colors in xv).

Relation to our other work

This is a spin-off of the image super-resolution project at NASA Ames's Artificial Intelligence Research Branch, now part of the Computational Sciences Division. We originally developed similar tools in Lisp to help us find, first, good test cases, and later, images of areas of interest to scientists who approached us.

Acknowledgements

[Up to Planetary Image Finderspage for whole solar system]

Kanef@Ptolemy.ARC.NASA.gov