{"id":53469,"date":"2023-10-18T23:04:39","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T21:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=53469"},"modified":"2025-10-18T02:40:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T00:40:11","slug":"a-visual-tour-of-the-surface-of-mars-and-what-the-geography-of-this-planet-indicates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/10\/18\/a-visual-tour-of-the-surface-of-mars-and-what-the-geography-of-this-planet-indicates\/","title":{"rendered":"A visual tour of the surface of Mars and what the geography of this planet indicates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of all the planets in the Solar System, the one that most inspires space exploration is Mars, since it is the most similar to Earth.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/08\/20\/phaethon-the-hypothetical-fifth-planet-that-has-never-been-found-between-mars-and-jupiter\/\">Phaethon, the hypothetical fifth planet that has never been found between Mars and Jupiter<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/08\/23\/a-video-that-imagines-what-the-next-300-years-of-space-colonization-could-be-like\/\">A video that imagines what the next 300 years of space colonization could be like<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>Today, <strong>Mars is a planet with arid and desolate landscapes, but it was not always like this.<\/strong> Its surface offers us clues to a very remote past, millions of years ago, in which <strong> Mars had seas and rivers<\/strong>, larger than those on Earth. An interesting video from the channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@Kosmo_off\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kosmos<\/a> <strong>takes a visual tour of the current surface of our neighboring planet<\/strong>, and shows the clues it offers us about what it was like in that remote past:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What Did the Ancient Mars Look Like? Geography of the Red Planet\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RjpkCaSp0CQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>The video includes some fabulous computer recreations<\/strong> that show us what Mars is like and its main geographical features. You can see some screenshots here as a preview.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53268528373_fc46c2d2b2_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53268243916_84a0b24e3a_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53268528383_d1e47361dc_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53268597504_e33b08f112_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of all the planets in the Solar System, the one that most inspires space exploration is Mars, since it is the most similar to Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,16878],"tags":[19957],"class_list":["post-53469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-space","tag-mars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}