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I was thinking the same thing when I stitched this cloud panorama before sunrise last week. It looks like one of those cylindrical re-projections that image wizards like Bjorn and scalbers do so well. Someone more talented than me could probably wrap it back around into a sphere and create a cool looking planet.

Same remark when, once in a while I "could" have mistaken our sun (at sun set behind clouds) for Jupiter. Sorry no pictures but I guess some of you already saw this?

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here are two quick SimpleCylindrical maps of the two above images

Fantastic. Thanks John.

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No problem it was a nice break from editing old maps of Mars
remapping and cleaning them up

this was a fun diversion

for those interested
my picasa album of them
https://picasaweb.google.com/10269590129139...ncentMapsOfMars

Your collection of maps is very nice. Interesting to see the correlations between them.