article_snippet.sent: a single complete 3D map allows astronomers to 'stand' on planetary surfaces and could help explain how water and lava once flowed across the red planet.
article_snippet.sent: The first mosaic, pieced together by the German Aerospace Center (DLR), comprises 1.4 million square miles (2.3 million square km) of the surface.
article_snippet.sent: the German Aerospace Center (DLR) covers the vast crater-strewn highland region of the red planet, parts of the Ares Vallis outflow channel, the chaotic Aram Chaos region as well as the Meridiani Planum and Chryse Planitia plains.
article_snippet.sent: The new map allows scientists to 'stand' on planetary surfaces and could help explain how water and lava once flowed across Mars.
article_snippet.sent: Gerhard Mercator and Carl Friedrich Gauss measured Earth, and with our survey of Mars our are following in our survey of Mars footsteps,' says Ralf Jaumann, a DLR planetary scientist.
article_snippet.sent: Individual stereo and colour images from a total of 89 Martian orbits were combined to create the map. '
article_snippet.sent: The data for this wide-area topography of Mars was acquired by Mars Express' High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC,) which has been orbiting the red planet since 2003.
article_snippet.sent: Nine sensors record the surface of the red planet from different angles and make it possible to map our planetary neighbour at high resolution, in colour, and in the third dimension – elevation.
article_snippet.sent: About 97 percent of the red planet has been recorded with image resolutions of up to 330ft (100 metres).
article_snippet.sent: By around 2018, the team from DLR, wants to represent the whole of Mars as one coherent mosaic.
article_snippet.sent: By around 2018, the team from DLR, wants to represent the whole of Mars as one coherent mosaic .
highlights_snippet.sent: The stunning mosaic could help scientists better understand how water and lava once flowed across Mars .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: In three years, the German Aerospace Center wants to represent the whole of Mars as one coherent mosaic .