This view combines hundreds of images taken during the first several weeks after NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander arrived on an arctic plain at 68.22 degrees north latitude, 234.25 degrees east longitude on Mars. Image credit: China National Space Administration. ![]() The Mars topography map is the first topography and geomorphology image map taken by the navigation terrain camera after the rover reaches the surface of Mars. The image shows that the terrain near the landing site is flat, the Martian horizon can be seen in the distance, and the abundance and size of the rocks are consistent with expectations, indicating that the autonomous selection of the landing site and the implementation of hovering obstacle avoidance are effective. The panoramic view of the landing site (Utopia Planitia of Mars) is a 360 degrees ring shot taken by the navigation terrain camera on the mast of Zhurong, the Chinese Mars rover of Tianwen-1, after correction and mosaic stitching. Mike sent posted this landscape in the forums. Mars rover Spirit made this image during August 24 to 27, 2005. Johan transformed this Mars image from NASA into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. Set the projection mode to stereographic, zoom out to a wide field of view and point down towards the ground to get the nice rounded “planet” effect. Landscape made using some screen shots and data from the wonderful Celestia. ![]() ![]() This landscape is made using NASA photographs taken by Gene Cernan. Look down and you can see Buzz’s footprints :) You can change the default back to a different landscape in the same way any time you like.This landscape is made using NASA photographs taken by Buzz Aldrin. If you like you can set Standalone Farm as the default for your Stellarium background by ticking the ‘Use this landscape as default’ box.The original Standalone_farm.zip file can now be deleted if you wish.The image should now load onto the screen. Click on the ‘Install a new landscape from a zip archive…’ button and select Standalone_farm.zip from the location you downloaded it to. Click on the ‘Add/Remove landscape…’ button. In the ‘View’ dialogue box displayed click on the ‘Landscape’ tab.Start Stellarium and go to the ‘Sky and Viewing Options window’ icon (left side of the screen).Right click this link to download the zip file containing the three files required.You can change the default back to a different landscape in the same way any time you like. If you like you can set Standalone Farm as the default for your Stellarium background by using ‘options’ in the ‘View’ dialogue box.Select Standalone Farm and the image should load onto the screen. In the ‘View’ dialogue box displayed click on landscapes.Start Stellarium and go to the ‘Sky and viewing options’ icon (left side of the screen).Copy the three files into the ‘./landscapes/Standalone Farm’ folder.Create a folder called ‘Standalone Farm’ in the ‘landscapes’ folder. This should contain a folder called ‘landscapes’. On your C: drive go to ‘program files’ folder and find the ‘Stellarium’ folder.Click this link to download the zip file containing the three files required and unzip it. The files are compressed in a zip file so you will need a zip/unzip program (many free ones are available on the web). You need three files for the Windows version of Stellarium. ![]() Stellarium is a free program available for Windows and Mac OS X. When loaded as the landscape it will show the area around our LX200R telescope in our observatory at Standalone Farm. David Davies has photographed and constructed a panoramic landscape image that can be used in the Stellarium planetarium program.
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