Live mars
Now the conditions on Mars are such that no one except bacteria and fungi can survive. Carbon dioxide prevails in the air. The average temperature is -50 o C. The atmosphere and magnetic field are so weak that cosmic and solar radiation burn the surface of the planet without any obstacles. But what if, instead of dust and stones, the nature of Mars was much more beautiful? What if he had oceans, terrestrial atmosphere and vegetation?
Software engineer Kevid Jill from New Hampshire tried to answer these questions in his project and created a computer model of living Mars - A Living Mars. According to him, it was a very hard work. Jill modeled the surface of Mars in his own jDem846 program, distributed under an open license, set the sea level, and then transferred this model to GIMP, where he drew landscape features based on NASA's Blue Marble: Next Generation imagery data.
“I wanted to create a visual model of Mars, to recreate his view, which he probably had once in the past. Or which he could accept in the future, if we decide to master it, adapt it to ourselves, occupy it. I did the visualization mainly based on real data, very accurately. For the first time I did all the details, painted and lined up everything in detail. The layer that I imposed on the initial data on the relief. ”- says Jill. Creating his virtual planet, Jill believed that the physical processes on Earth and Mars were similar. He took into account the alleged composition of water and the atmosphere of Mars, size and gravity, distance from the sun, the period of circulation. The author did not claim absolute accuracy, but the scientific community highly appreciated his attempt.
“Basic data on the relief, on elevation differences on the surface of Mars have already been collected. I managed to get them. I used data from telescopes and spacecraft exploring Mars. ”Today we have a unique opportunity to go back thousands of years. This is what a “live” Mars could look like.
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As can be seen in the figure, the conditions were almost identical to those on earth. There were all terrestrial climatic zones, seas, oceans, islands, forests. All that distinguished Mars from Earth is a reduced gravity and, as a consequence, the large size of natural objects. Unfortunately, we will never see all the true, former beauty of Mars.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+KevinGill/posts Author page
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinmgill/8165909516/lightbox/ Visualization of living Mars
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/BlueMarble/ NASA Blue Marble Project: Next Generation imagery
https://code.google.com/p/jdem846/ Author’s Program
http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view.php?id=57747 NASA Catalog, from which the author took the clouds and the atmosphere
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinmgill/8165909516/sizes/c/in/photostream/ Image in different resolutions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH2KJnllU-8 Documentary film for connoisseurs.
Software engineer Kevid Jill from New Hampshire tried to answer these questions in his project and created a computer model of living Mars - A Living Mars. According to him, it was a very hard work. Jill modeled the surface of Mars in his own jDem846 program, distributed under an open license, set the sea level, and then transferred this model to GIMP, where he drew landscape features based on NASA's Blue Marble: Next Generation imagery data.
“I wanted to create a visual model of Mars, to recreate his view, which he probably had once in the past. Or which he could accept in the future, if we decide to master it, adapt it to ourselves, occupy it. I did the visualization mainly based on real data, very accurately. For the first time I did all the details, painted and lined up everything in detail. The layer that I imposed on the initial data on the relief. ”- says Jill. Creating his virtual planet, Jill believed that the physical processes on Earth and Mars were similar. He took into account the alleged composition of water and the atmosphere of Mars, size and gravity, distance from the sun, the period of circulation. The author did not claim absolute accuracy, but the scientific community highly appreciated his attempt.
“Basic data on the relief, on elevation differences on the surface of Mars have already been collected. I managed to get them. I used data from telescopes and spacecraft exploring Mars. ”Today we have a unique opportunity to go back thousands of years. This is what a “live” Mars could look like.
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As can be seen in the figure, the conditions were almost identical to those on earth. There were all terrestrial climatic zones, seas, oceans, islands, forests. All that distinguished Mars from Earth is a reduced gravity and, as a consequence, the large size of natural objects. Unfortunately, we will never see all the true, former beauty of Mars.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+KevinGill/posts Author page
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinmgill/8165909516/lightbox/ Visualization of living Mars
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/BlueMarble/ NASA Blue Marble Project: Next Generation imagery
https://code.google.com/p/jdem846/ Author’s Program
http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view.php?id=57747 NASA Catalog, from which the author took the clouds and the atmosphere
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinmgill/8165909516/sizes/c/in/photostream/ Image in different resolutions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH2KJnllU-8 Documentary film for connoisseurs.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/201916/
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