Mercury! We may as well continue the series and explore the rest of the rocky worlds in the Solar System.

May 4, 2026 · 9:32 PM UTC

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Venus
I made this map for Earth / Mars last week and you seemed to like it so here is it for Venus showing the distribution of elevation levels on the surface. Negative values indicate terrain below the Mars areoid — a gravitational reference surface defined where atmospheric pressure equals 610.5 Pa (the triple point of water) — which serves as the zero-elevation datum in place of a sea level.
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Earth
Fun concept, the distribution of elevation levels on the earths surface
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Mars
I made this map for Earth last week and you seemed to like it so here is it for Mars, the distribution of elevation levels on the earths surface. I have used a blue-red colourmap to give it the illusion of oceans. Negative values indicate terrain below the Mars areoid — a gravitational reference surface defined where atmospheric pressure equals 610.5 Pa (the triple point of water) — which serves as the zero-elevation datum in place of a sea level.
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imagine ripping around on an ATV on the surface of Mercury
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What's up with the peak?
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Mars and Earth seem to be the only ones so far with a bimodal distribution, could this be a hint to something?
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The topography seems to know where the datum is.
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