4 ms·
Ancient Mars: Covered with life, oceans, clouds, and imagination
- gus_massa 14y agoMore details about how he painted it: (it's linked in the article) https://plus.google.com/113761354606401247247/posts/K8RQu5xu3EH#113761354606401247247/posts/K8RQu5xu3EH https://plus.google.com/113761354606401247247/posts/K8RQu5xu... I like the images. He says that the climate of each area is not chosen very scientifically. I don't like some of the assumptions, but I don't know enough about climate to make something better. (For example, the mount Olympus is very high: should you put some snow there like in the Kilimanjaro?) A few weeks ago there was an article in xkcd:whatif http://what-if.xkcd.com/10/ http://what-if.xkcd.com/10/ that analyze the climate of the Earth with the landmasses rotated 90°. This analysis in xkcd is apparently more correct and scientifically based. It would be nice to have a mixture of the two approaches. Images of "Wet Mars" and "Rotated Earth" that look nice and are based in climate science