Online Rendering of Mars

NEWS
This system has now been turned off. It ran for about a month and received a huge number of hits, unfortunately the cluster it used to do the rendering has other more pressing activities. Feel free to explore the image gallery of interesting renderings created while the system was operational.

This experimental interface lets you create your own personal renderings of the topology of Mars. Simply fill in the form below and submit it. You will receive an email indicating the eventual URL of the rendering. Typically your rendering will be ready within 30 minutes but it may take longer depending on the current load on the farm and the number of other renderings running at the same time.

The image gallery has some renderings already created by others.

 
Longitude: degrees
Latitude: degrees (-80 to 80)
Range: km (3800 to 15000)
Height scale: (1 to 20)
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The renderings are run on the high performance clusters at Swinburne University and managed by the Astrophysics and Supercomputing Group. The geometry is derived from the MOLA (Mars Orbital Laser Altimeter) 1/32 degree topology dataset.

For more information, suggestions for improvement, and any problems with this system please contact me (Paul Bourke) by email.