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Oct 19, 2016 · The first geologic map of Mars based on data from the Mariner 9 mission was published in 1978. It was the first geologic map of any planetary surface beyond Earth and the moon.
- Betsy Mason
Jul 13, 2020 · Eratosthenes of Cyrene was a Greek geographer, astronomer, and mathematician. He had invented geography and made the first climatic map, separating the Earth into five climate zones: two cold zones around the poles, two temperate zones, tropics, and a zone encircling the equator.
Feb 17, 2021 · Mars has drawn our attention for millennia, and it was when we started mapping the planet that we began to see it as a place, and a destination. Early mapmaking led to scientific discoveries—and...
Jul 27, 2018 · The first map of Mars to appear in National Geographic magazine was inspired by another close approach of the planet in 1954. To get a prime view of the event, astronomers from the Lowell...
- Betsy Mason
Feb 26, 2009 · Global map of Mars from Mariner 9 data (1971) Mariner 9 was the first Mars orbiter. The more than 7,000 images it acquired provided the first detailed views of all of Mars, revealing that the planet had both ancient cratered terrain and more modern tectonized and eroded areas.
Jul 22, 2019 · Henricus Martellus expanded on Ptolemaic maps, and also relied on sources like Marco Polo’s travels to imagine the Old World. His milestone map closely resembles the oldest-surviving terrestrial globe, Erdapfel, created by cartographer Martin Behaim. Today, it’s preserved at the Yale University archives.
With the Age of Discovery, during the 15th to 18th centuries, world maps became increasingly accurate; exploration of Antarctica, Australia, and the interior of Africa by western mapmakers was left to the 19th and early 20th century.
