Looks like the API change has killed this bot. As a reminder, the raw data (20G) for this bot is available here: drive.google.com/drive/folders/…

We should make it real.

All these images were rendered in about 2018. The next version, with 128x higher resolution, is a work in progress but I took a big step yesterday. Unfortunately GPT is still pretty useless at this kind of thing. CC Casey Handmer

Someone sent us a new Terraform Industries shirt based on Terraformed Mars imagery. Thank you!

I'm gearing up for the next phase of the hydrology simulation, to increase resolution from 462 m down to 7.2 m, and to do this I needed to fill in a mere 360 GB of topo data extending just 2 degrees out from each pole, but Mars 3 HD wasn't having it. Completely stuffed. Hard to

Here are 3 screenshots from 3 different simulations and renders I've done, each with subtle differences in environmental parameters. The most recent run converged after 3 days so I'll be taking that dataset forward for the first higher resolution run.

Let's zoom in on the newest dataset (hot off the presses this morning). We start from a distance: the red planet has a greenish tinge. The red patch below is Hellas Basin - in this sim most water evaporates before reaching the lowest altitudes, similar to Death Valley and the

-oid vaporizer Gotchu.

@50SatMD It's the wrong file. I mean, the data is there but it doesn't play properly with Google Earth. Will fix. In the meantime, here's a different one.