If Mars were like Earth, this is what it might look like

Humans' long fascination with Mars is part fantasy, part wishful thinking. If only, you know, it could sustain life, we'd have another planet we can destroy. Kidding! Kevin Gill, a software engineer and very smart dude, created a computer model of a parallel Mars — one that had the same atmosphere as Earth. His results are stunning. Producing two different projections, his rendering of Mars' eastern hemisphere shows a very green and lush topography, while the western half of the planet features a less-green view. Gill took existing topographic details from Earth and filled in the corresponding areas in Mars. The result is a near-Earth that looks habitable. The pictures above show, at left, Mars as it is and one of the projections at right. [Source]

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