areography
Sign in to savethumb|340px|A high-resolution colorized map of Mars based on Viking program|Viking orbiter images. Surface frost and water ice fog brighten the impact basin Hellas to the right of lower center; Syrtis Major just above it is darkened by winds that sweep dust off its basaltic surface. Residual north and south polar ice caps are shown at upper and lower right as they appear in early summer and at minimum size, respectively.
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14 sectionsContents
- History
- Cartography and geodesy
- Zero elevation
- Zero latitude
- Zero longitude
- Topography
- Martian dichotomy
- Nomenclature
- Early nomenclature
- Modern nomenclature
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|340px|A high-resolution colorized map of Mars based on Viking program|Viking orbiter images. Surface frost and water ice fog brighten the impact basin Hellas to the right of lower center; Syrtis Major just above it is darkened by winds that sweep dust off its basaltic surface. Residual north and south polar ice caps are shown at upper and lower right as they appear in early summer and at minimum size, respectively.
Areography, also known as the geography of Mars, is a subfield of planetary science that entails the delineation and characterization of regions on Mars. Areography is mainly focused on what is called physical geography on Earth; that is the distribution of physical features across Mars and their cartographic representations. In April 2023, The New York Times reported an updated global map of Mars based on images from the Hope spacecraft. A related, but much more detailed, global Mars map was released by NASA on 16 April 2023.