POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Planet Earth rendered : Re: Planet Earth rendered Server Time
12 Aug 2024 23:26:15 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Planet Earth rendered  
From: Wolfgang Wieser
Date: 25 Jul 2003 08:05:21
Message: <3f211d00@news.povray.org>
Christoph Hormann wrote:
> It is very low resolution and includes shading which is difficult to
> remove.  You can find this at various places, for example:
> 
> http://www.solarviews.com/cap/mars/marscyl1.htm
> 
I never tried to use real color of Mars so far but thought I 
could search for a color map today. 

Unfortunately, the results were frustrating. 
It seems, there used to be a nice texture map on the net because 
I stepped over the following: 

Quote from: http://www.cherba.com/wcs/tutorials/vns/mola/
>The nice folks at NASA have made it easy to texture Mars. You'll find 
>the 7.4 Mb color.jpg in the same directory as the rest of the MOLA data.

Unfornunately, the link is dead and half an hour searching the net 
did not reveal it...

Wolfgang


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