Raised Relief Mars Globe Brings the Red Planet Closer

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Overview

The Mars Globe 20x is the first digitally produced raised relief globe to be sold at retail establishments. The rises and dips of the Martian landscape have been multiplied by 20 to make the shapes more noticeable to human touch and sight. They make this globe, with its over 1 million elevation points, a visually stunning introduction to the planet. Spectrum 3D, Inc. and The Raised Relief Globe Company used the NASA digital land elevation data to aim lasers that then shaped and defined the globe's surface. The data came from the NASA Planetary Data System archives maintained by the Earth and Planetary Remote Sensing Laboratory in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the Washington University in St. Louis. The Mars Globe 20x is being distributed in the United States and throughout Europe. It has myriad uses, including as an educational display in classrooms, museums, and lobbies; or it can serve just as well as a piece of art with the ability to captivate and amaze the viewer.