Phil Stooke
@PhilStooke@mastodon.social
Professor Emeritus, University of Western Ontario. Space exploration and planetary cartography, historical and present. A longtime poster on unmannedspaceflight.com (RIP - but now archived at https://umsfarchive.com/index.php/), now posting content on www.nasaspaceflight.com and https://discord.com/channels/1290524907624464394 as well as here. The Solar System ain't gonna map itself. This is 100% (or more) AI-free.
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Phil Stooke
@PhilStooke@mastodon.social
Professor Emeritus, University of Western Ontario. Space exploration and planetary cartography, historical and present. A longtime poster on unmannedspaceflight.com (RIP - but now archived at https://umsfarchive.com/index.php/), now posting content on www.nasaspaceflight.com and https://discord.com/channels/1290524907624464394 as well as here. The Solar System ain't gonna map itself. This is 100% (or more) AI-free.
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Jan 31, 2026
Last September I started a thread on Viking 1 which began with the Viking site selection process. Here we will pick up the story for Viking 2. Viking sites were chosen initially using Mariner 9 images and elevation data, and the final stage of that process produced these two sites for Viking 2, a prime site (B1) and a backup (B2). B1 is Cydonia and its most famous inhabitant lives in those hills (Cydonia Colles). B2 is a low volcanic rise now called Alba Mons.
#mars #maps #viking2
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