Season
N. Autumn
Orbital Radar's Mars Globe is an interactive, real-time 3D map of Mars. It tracks active Mars orbiters — NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) and Mars Odyssey, ESA's Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, and the UAE's Hope (EMM) — on live positions derived from JPL Horizons ephemeris, alongside NASA's MAVEN and China's Tianwen-1 on physically modeled orbits. Both Martian moons, Phobos and Deimos, are shown on their real Horizons orbits — Phobos laps Mars in about 7 hours 39 minutes.
The globe maps the Martian surface: the active Perseverance rover in Jezero Crater and Curiosity in Gale Crater, historic landing sites (Viking 1 and 2, Pathfinder, Spirit, Opportunity, Phoenix, InSight and China's Zhurong), impact and crash sites, and named features — Olympus Mons, the Tharsis volcanoes, Valles Marineris, the Hellas and Argyre basins, the polar ice caps and the marsquake source at Cerberus Fossae. It renders the real day/night terminator, the sub-solar point, current season and solar longitude (Ls), local Mars time at each rover, and Mars weather.
Related tools on Orbital Radar: Mars rovers, Perseverance, Curiosity, the Moon globe, all Worlds, Deep Space probes, near-Earth objects, NASA and the glossary. Return to the live Earth satellite globe.