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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