The Oceans Of Mars

Kenneth Field has updated his beautiful topographical map of Mars. (Is There) Life on Mars immediately includes the selection to add together lakes, seas too oceans too plough the cherry planet partly greenish (read the 'details' for an explanation every bit to why H2O on Mars wouldn't seem blue)).

The map's novel H2O layer allows you lot to add together H2O to the surface of Mars based on the planet's superlative data. You've in all probability seen this sort of responsive H2O layer earlier on sea bird maps of the Earth, such every bit Climate Central's Surging Seas map.

Maps similar Surging Seas copy the probable consequences of global alarm on Earth's sea levels. While the temperature on Mars tin dismiss scope every bit high every bit lxx degrees Fahrenheit (at the equator on a Martian summertime day) in that place is shortly footling danger of the due north polar H2O ice cap melting (Mars would require a far denser atmosphere too higher surface temperatures).

However the novel H2O layer on Kenneth's Mars map is an interesting means to visualize superlative information on Mars. You tin dismiss purpose the unlike H2O levels to visualize unlike elevations on the map below Mars' 'sea level'. And who knows, perchance inwards a few millennium, nosotros mightiness last using a similar map inwards our efforts to terraform Mars.