{"id":173,"date":"2016-02-17T18:23:07","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T02:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/?p=173"},"modified":"2016-02-17T18:23:07","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T02:23:07","slug":"first-os-contour-map-for-a-mars-region-with-exomars-2018-landing-ellipse-in-oxia-planum-superimposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/2016\/02\/17\/first-os-contour-map-for-a-mars-region-with-exomars-2018-landing-ellipse-in-oxia-planum-superimposed\/","title":{"rendered":"First OS Contour Map For A Mars Region &#8211; With ExoMars 2018 Landing Ellipse In Oxia Planum Superimposed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ordnance_Survey\" target=\"_blank\">Ordnance Survey (national mapping agency for the UK)<\/a> has just released their first map of a region on another planet. It&#8217;s a high resolution relief shaded contour map, and includes the area of Mars where ExoMars will land in 2018. Here is a close up view of it with the ESA landing ellipse in Oxia Planum superimposed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.science20.com\/robert_inventor\/first_os_contour_map_for_a_mars_region_with_exomars_2018_landing_ellipse_in_oxia_planum_superimposed-165780\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/abloglikethis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/zoom_in_mars_map_with_esa_landing_ellipse_superimposed.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.science20.com\/robert_inventor\/first_os_contour_map_for_a_mars_region_with_exomars_2018_landing_ellipse_in_oxia_planum_superimposed-165780\">First OS Contour Map For A Mars Region &#8211; With ExoMars 2018 Landing Ellipse In Oxia Planum Superimposed<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Ordnance Survey (national mapping agency for the UK) has just released their first map of a region on another planet. It&#8217;s a high resolution relief shaded contour map, and includes the area of Mars where ExoMars will land in 2018. Here is a close up view of it with the ESA landing ellipse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-science","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}