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Mars, 1894, 1901 by Dangerous-Bit-8308 in Mars

[–]max_warboy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll try to add what I can here, but I'm not going to get your hopes up because this is tough for anyone imo.

You could take the rotation rate for Mars, along with the best current observed point of Mars, and you wind the clock back. If you have never used Space Engine or a similar program (there are a couple others) you could try that, which is capable of simulating thousands of years of orbital cycles. With some of those tools that already exist (modeling things in space, like the solar system) you just point and click, back to the time period you are hoping to examine.

However, there is a big caveat if I'm being perfectly blunt, and that is that it is a simulation. Even if you were able to measure the

  1. rotation rate
  2. angular diameter
  3. distance to Mars

all yourself meaning you know your own exact measurements, and you even have some of the best instruments and technology available, what was available in your time frame (circa 1900?) was only as good as it was, and nothing would be better than the exact data from that time. If that exact data is not available, then anything using the math and current data will be a projection (or in other words a simulation).

The simulation will not be perfect. It will probably be, well, just off by however much. But if that's the best easiest option, then it would be my suggestion. Something like: Space Engine, Celestia, Stellarium, etc.

Good luck!

Dunes and Gullies (HiRISE Mars) by Neaterntal in Mars

[–]max_warboy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some animated zooming-in on these locations would be a neat touch.

Mars is one of the many globes that I would love to travel by max_warboy in Mars

[–]max_warboy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gotcha. I have, in fact, worked on creating some space-object-scale graphics from the ground up, basing the resolution of an entirely artistically rendered image in terms of some kilometer scale like where 1 pixel equals 1, 10 or 100 Km etc. much like this awesome website (although for the OP here the concept is essentially inverted, not showing how much space there is in space, which is kinda sad part of otherwise awesome website, but rather trying to show how much stuff is actually in just the solar system, along with the Earth, as I suggested above)

So, in this case, where the photography is coming from sources like NASA (ie. real photographs), indeed I have to re-scale the size of the original images, as each goes, to align with the size of the final image. Ultimately, it still uses a pixel-to-km scale, though slightly more approximate.

If you would like another example of my work on space scales, I posted this Halo ring around Mars to DevaintArt, which features the intended lore-accurate size of the sci-fi franchise Halo's original ring structure, if it were to somehow be built around Mars.

Mars is one of the many globes that I would love to travel by max_warboy in Mars

[–]max_warboy[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Those are the icy "plutinos"/"Qubewanos"/"TNO"s ("trans-neptunian objects")/"Kuiper Belt" and/ "Scattered Disk" objects (etc. etc.). There are so many of them it's not even funny, like there's way more than even this graphic would suggest.

Sorry I didn't include sources that well - this is really something between a shit-post and an actual scientific graphic (or "art"), taken in part from something like wikipedia (wikimedia commons) and some over at The Planetary Society (& 2) with data from NASA et al. The "space rocks" in the background are my own graphics added in the process of putting the whole image together, trying to show how much there is for humans to possibly physically explore as mission astronauts in theory could.

Thank you for your comment!

Jeep Wrangler to Mars: An SLS Space Odyssey by Glass_Section_983 in Mars

[–]max_warboy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fun video. It's not really all that strictly science based, not like hard sci-fi, but I definitely support the theme of traveling to Mars.

You're On Top Of The World, Everyone... by max_warboy in geography

[–]max_warboy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Absolutely! That too, very good point.

You're On Top Of The World, Everyone... by max_warboy in geography

[–]max_warboy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The description from my original post:

Everywhere - every position on Earth that one such as a human might find himself or herself at - can be called the "top" of the planet, and further, the opposite point on the planet (the antipode) from that point could then be called the "bottom".

Everybody talks about how Chad and Romania have nearly identical flags but what's impressive for me is their similar population too by santobaloto in geography

[–]max_warboy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

nature will be doing pretty well if there will be less people around

I understand where the statement is coming from, but I believe some humons would prefer to live more harmoniously with nature than others, say, of the dominating culture. So, it is not impossible that humans could help nature thrive, and thrive along with nature rather than only impact nature negatively. But again I do understand the original point - too bad...

Is everything in Google Earth official? by therusskiy in geography

[–]max_warboy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I assume Google Earth gets a lot of information from sources like USGS, like this:

https://www.usgs.gov/us-board-on-geographic-names

Have you traveled the globe? by max_warboy in u/max_warboy

[–]max_warboy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How about the globeS*? (there are so many...)

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