HiBlog: HiRISE Team Blog » maps http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/HiBlog High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment Tue, 08 Nov 2011 23:39:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Your House at HiRISE Resolution http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/HiBlog/2009/04/30/your-house-at-hirise-resolution/ http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/HiBlog/2009/04/30/your-house-at-hirise-resolution/#comments Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:35:26 +0000 Ingrid Daubar http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/HiBlog/?p=250 I was helping to prepare a presentation for a local high school, and I thought it would be cool to show them a picture of their school as HiRISE would see it. My first thought was the satellite layer in Google Maps. So I zoomed way in and took a screenshot. I wasn’t able to find a reference for the pixel scale of the satellite imagery (if anyone knows of one, please leave it in a comment!), so finally I just figured it out myself by using the Distance Measurement Tool. Turns out, if you zoom in as far as possible, the satellite images have almost exactly the same resolution as HiRISE! (This is true in Tucson, anyway; the coverage varies over different locations.) I thought this was a great way to visualize just how awesome HiRISE images are – just imagine looking at Mars like you can look at your home town on Google maps! :) …I guess that makes the rovers like Mars StreetView. ;)

This is my neighborhood as HiRISE would see it: (Look at all those pools! Tucson is not nearly as dry as Mars ;) )


Google maps satellite coverage

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