Java Marslet
... by Akkana Peck
Known Bugs
Latitude is currently not calculated (i.e. Mars is always shown with
its equator straight on to us). That is a bug, not intentional.
Credits
Marslet is copyright 2003 by Akkana Peck, is open source, licensed
under the GPL; the source is
marslet-0.2.tar.gz.
Marslet uses some code from MarsMap
by Akkana Peck and Brian Tung.
The color maps use the Viking
images from JPL as a background, with labels added by Akkana Peck
and Bill Arnett.
You are welcome to use the maps for noncommercial purposes:
the Normal Map and the
East-west flipped map.
Please contact the author
if you want a higher resolution version.
The black-and-white map is based on a
locally modified version of the
ALPO
Mars map, courtesy of Daniel M Troiani
of the Association
of Lunar & Planetary Observers - Mars Section.
The Marslet code supports rotated and rotated-flipped maps as well;
if you are willing to contribute such a map, it would be much appreciated!
I have a Zaurus .ipk version of this, but it's currently too slow to
be useful. I'm working on it.
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