mars-examples

Mars Examples

Examples of pages about places on the planet Mars which could be marked-up with, or accessed via, the proposed "mars" microformat (like the geo microformat for places on Earth).

• ESA (e.g. Cydonia - the face on Mars: "Cydonia lies at approximately 40.75° North and 350.54° East")
• NASA (e.g Prime Landing Sites for MER-A and MER-B: several entries in table cells, one pair of which are "1.98 S, 353.82 E" "1.98 S, 354.06 E")
• Google Mars
• Wikipedia
  • e.g. Opportunity Rover article: "Opportunity landed in Meridiani Planum at 354.4742°E 1.9483°S (areocentric coordinates)")
  • List of artificial objects on Mars (plus individual articles listed therein)
• HiRise (e.g. Valles Marineris Wall Rock "The complete image is centered at -12.2 degrees latitude, 297.6 degrees East longitude")
• Beagle 2 "there is a 99% probability of it lying within an ellipse measuring 174 km by 106 km centred at 11.6° N, 269.5° W (see map)."
• Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature, e.g. [http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/jsp/FeatureTypesData2.jsp?systemID=4