Additional Mars MOLA surface textures

[selden]

I've updated my Mars Gallery page at http://www.lns.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/gallery-002.html to include a few more surface textures generated from MOLA altimitry maps on the Web. Unfortunately, the maps they provide include shaded surface features. While the maps look dramatic when viewed by themselve, they really aren't the best for use with Celestia

[t00fri]

I've updated my Mars Gallery page at http://www.lns.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/gallery-002.html to include a few more surface textures generated from MOLA altimitry maps on the Web. Unfortunately, the maps they provide include shaded surface features. While the maps look dramatic when viewed by themselve, they really aren't the best for use with Celestia :(

I completely agree, Selden. I actually spent quite a bit of time comparing the bump/normal maps generated from MOLA (see also Federman's site) versus results derived from the 11k bump file from Space Graphics. The latter is /way/ better...

I think in a little while, I may indeed be ready to produce an update of my TextureFoundry site with partly spectacular textures;-)...

We'll see

Bye Fridger

[alan_federman]

I am working with some contacts at JPL to get Malin labs to prepare some custom data sets for us. Keep your fingers crossed. If this works out, maybe all the latest mars imagery can be distributed in Celestia compatible format.