Google Mars

Published March 13th, 2006 in Everything else.

OK, this is way cool: Google Mars. If you’ve ever read Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson, some of the names of geological formations should be familiar. Check out Olympus Mons - 21 km (!) above… above what actually? How do they determine the ’sea level’ if there is no sea?

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