MapLab: What It Takes To Map Mars
"Truth" dataset of the Terrain Relative Navigation.
Fergason et al.(2020)
I’m Marie Patino, Bloomberg CityLab’s data journalist, and this week I’m filling in for Laura Bliss while she’s on book leave. Today, we’re exploring how to precisely map a planet no human being has ever set foot on: Mars.
On Feb. 18, the Perseverance Rover completed its seven-month-long journey to Mars. It landed in a 28-mile-wide crater called Jezero (named after a small town in Bosnia). The crater is located in the large impact basin of Isidis Planitia, which scientists believe used to be a lake billions of years ago, near an ancient river delta.