{"id":141674,"date":"2022-07-04T21:22:18","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T02:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/nasa-just-built-the-best-map-of-mars-to-date-using-51000-images"},"modified":"2022-07-04T21:22:18","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T02:22:18","slug":"nasa-just-built-the-best-map-of-mars-to-date-using-51000-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/nasa-just-built-the-best-map-of-mars-to-date-using-51000-images","title":{"rendered":"NASA just built the best map of Mars to date using 51,000 images"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-just-built-the-best-map-of-mars-to-date-using-51000-images3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s effectively a new data set that will fuel the second wave of discoveries about Mars\u2019 surface composition.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>But while it was doing that work, it was also gathering lower-resolution mapping strips, about 83,000 of them. Now that CRISM is no longer active, the team is building their map from those strips.<\/p>\n<p>Processing this much data into one cohesive map is a complicated task requiring powerful computing resources. It takes time to optimize the maps and account for environmental conditions and discrepancies between the different images.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor an individual tile, the optimization process might take just five hours in some exceptional cases, but sometimes it will take over a day,\u201d said CRISM team member Katie Hancock, a software developer at APL who spearheaded the development of the optimization code. In a press release from JH\/UAPL, Hancock said that it could take a computer cluster a month to build the map of the entire planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s effectively a new data set that will fuel the second wave of discoveries about Mars\u2019 surface composition. But while it was doing that work, it was also gathering lower-resolution mapping strips, about 83,000 of them. Now that CRISM is no longer active, the team is building their map from those strips. Processing this much [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":631,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1965,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mapping","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}