Mars in 360: virtual tour of four craters seen from the ground

Four 360-degree views of the surface of Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun, a desert-like rocky world with a thin carbon dioxide atmosphere and a diameter about half the Earth's. These are not rover photographs: Kevin M. Gill projected them from digital terrain models and orthoimages of HiRISE, the camera of NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, in orbit since 2006. The tour visits Domoni crater, a crater in western Arabia Terra with stair-stepped hills and dark dunes, a well-preserved 9-kilometre impact crater and the inside of Rauna crater. Data: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/USGS.

Domoni crater

Domoni crater, in the Diacria quadrangle of Mars, projected from HiRISE digital terrain and image data by Kevin M. Gill (2017).

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The spherical photographs in this tour come from Wikimedia Commons and are used under their free licence: - **Domoni crater**: photograph Kevin M. Gill, [CC BY 2.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:360%CB%9A_Projected_Image-_Domoni_Crater_%2834328838116%29.jpg) - **Crater in western Arabia Terra**: photograph Kevin M. Gill, Public domain, [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:360%CB%9A_View-_Crater_in_Western_Arabia_Terra_with_Stair-Stepped_Hills_and_Dark_Dunes_%2832974048184%29.jpg) - **A well-preserved 9-kilometre impact crater**: photograph Kevin M. Gill, Public domain, [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:360%CB%9A_View-_Very_Well-Preserved_9-Kilometer_Diameter_Impact_

Crater in western Arabia Terra

Rendered 360-degree view of a crater floor in western Arabia Terra on Mars: yellow-ochre plains pitted with small craters, stair-stepped hills on the horizon, dark dunes and a hazy sky lit by a low sun

A crater floor in western Arabia Terra, a large, densely cratered and heavily eroded upland in the north of Mars, presumed to be one of the oldest terrains on the planet. HiRISE data set PSP_002047_1890.

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A well-preserved 9-kilometre impact crater

The floor of a very well preserved impact crater about 9 km in diameter. The long line visible on the ground is a seam between overlapping HiRISE data sets, not a real feature.

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Inside Rauna crater

Rendered 360-degree view within Rauna crater on Mars: a smooth ochre bowl with the crater rim running around the horizon and the sun rising behind it in a pale violet sky

The interior of Rauna crater, projected from HiRISE digital terrain model ESP_034934_2155.

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