I was looking for HD image of Mars positioned to show off the area of the Perseverance landing site at Jezero Crater for a LED backlit project I am working on and I really couldn’t find anything so I made one thanks to the created equirectangular images created by Jame Hastings-Trew.
This model is based on a Hastings-Trew diffuse texture map and his links to his source material for the DEM to create high vertex count mesh that was decimated and smoothed then a Normal map, AO, shadow and diffuse baked map textures were created and further refined in Paint.net as well as specular texture made. I added green toroid mesh surrounding Jezero Crater to highlight this area, which is still quite small from a global perspective.
UHD Video - https://youtu.be/vrEyERd8fm0
NOTE: Surface detail height map is slightly increased to allow detail to stand out and is not accurate.
Please credit:NASA JPL, James Hastings-Trew and Owl Creek Technologies if you choose to use this in your own project or for a presentation.
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