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June 4, 2024

Mars Globe from NASA Elvation Data

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Mars mesh generated from NASA Mars elevation data. 2m faces.

Generated from 2048×1024 image (used GDAL for scaling, so geographical information should be preserved).

Source data:
https://astrogeology.usgs.gov/search/details/Mars/GlobalSurveyor/MOLA/Mars_MGS_MOLA_DEM_mosaic_global_463m/cub

Caveats:

  • Not ready for 3D printing, holes at the North and South pole. .obj quads, is not triangulated.
  • Not entirely accurate, assumed that Mars was perfect sphere to generate the mesh instead of a more sophisticated Martian geoid, which the elevation data is based on.
  • Elevation is exaggerated 2x to a reference radius.

This article was first featured at https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4414610 on May 31, 2020 at 07:30PM by shuang64

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