Mars Explorer allows you to fly and drive over an accurately rendered 3D Martian landscape covering an area of 1000kmx1000km. The surface is rendered to scale using altimetry data from NASA's MGS satellite.

• Dynamic LOD terrain engine (200,000 polys per frame)
• Collision Detection
• Detail Textures
• Speed/Location/Bearing/Height information
• Lens Flare/Sun glare
• Sky Dome
• Fog
• Fly/Drive modes
• Freelook and zoom options
• Widescreen and Panoramic views
• Screenshot facility
• Airplane Model (Courtesy Douglas Ellison)

Click here to download Mars Explorer with the Labyrinthus Noctis map(15Mb). Noctis Labyrinthis (Labyrinth of the Night) is a maze of short interconnected canyons on the western edge of Valles Marineris.

Click here to download Mars Explorer with the Melas Chasma map(23Mb).Melas Chasma is located in the center of Valles Marineris. It is one of the proposed landing sites for the Mars Exploration Rover.

To install, unzip all the files to a new folder. Read the readme.txt file in the download for information on how to use the software.

These screenshots were taken from the Labyrinthus Noctis map.