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Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter

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Original – Topographic map of Mars as measured by Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter, showing the two hemispheres of Mars.

Reason

Lead image. Topography of Mars. This was on the cover of Science magazine in 1999. Measured by Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter.

Articles in which this image appears

Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Understanding

Creator

NASA

• Support as nominator – Bammesk (talk) 02:51, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

• Prefer and support alt, it has a lot more detail. Bammesk (talk) 00:34, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

• Comment Given my interests I'm not one to oppose this outright, but I think there are higher quality flat maps on the internet which are huge (as in, 12k by 6k pixels). – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 04:27, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
  • Here's an example. (Warning, this is about 18 MB large). – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 04:33, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

Much better resolution, a legend that indicates what the colors mean, topographic unity instead of two separate globes, a coordinate system that allows the viewer to get accurate positions for different features

• Oppose - There are far superior MOLA images on Wikipedia. I put one up as a comparison. -- Veggies (talk) 16:31, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
• Support Veggies's version, assuming it's not already an FP. – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 17:48, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
• Support alt. MER-C 18:18, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
• Support alt. --Janke | Talk 20:22, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
• Support alt. «“I'm Aya Syameimaru!”I„文々。新聞“I„userbako”» 12:27, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

Promoted File:Mars topography (MOLA dataset) with poles HiRes.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 06:55, 16 April 2020 (UTC)