The National Geographic Map of Mars was produced in a
collaborative effort by the Mars Global Surveyor MOLA and MOC
teams for the National Geographic Society. It is an image of
Mars that incorporates over 200 million laser altimeter
measurements from MOLA and about a thousand wide-angle images
from MOC. The altimetry accentuates details on the surface not
visible in images due to the dusty atmosphere of Mars, and the
image data provides realistic color. The image projection is
Winkel-Tripel. (Image Credit: National Geographic Society, MOLA
Science Team, MSS, JPL, NASA.) Using MOLA data through October
of 2000, the Science Team has produced a very high resolution
topographic shaded relief map of Mars that can be downloaded for
general use. Download a hi-res image (17.6 MB) The map has a
resolution 0.125° (300 dots per inch) and is shown as a mercator
projection to latitude 70° north and south. For a larger map,
click on the image at left. || This is a shaded relief image
from MOLA was was featured in the artic