Check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_(crater)
Look familiar? I just found out today this was a real crater on mars. I saw a pic of it on the front cover of the Caltech Course catalog, and I was like ZOMGWTF Spring? I have a lot of respect for this map now that I see what a great recreation it is.
ZOMG Spring?
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Maybe the map maker slaped the picture there? :) Thats the impression it gives me.
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The map was made using that exact image 

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The description even says it's based on that, you fucking idiot. This isn't genius level stuff.
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JanitorREVENGE wrote:You go to Caltech? :P
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Have to admit, I didn't know this until I stumbled on the photo somewhere a month or so back.
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Re: ZOMG Spring?
Yeah that's how I made a pizza map called PizzaTime.
Pizza.
Pizza.
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For me being a space.com junkie, it were the other way around. I first read about the crater as one of the exploration targets for the Mars rover Opportunity as well as saw that image taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Then I see this crater as a map in Spring!!?!
Just HAD to download and test playing it, fighting battles on the very grounds visited by the rover Opportunity
!! Awesome!
Then I see this crater as a map in Spring!!?!
Just HAD to download and test playing it, fighting battles on the very grounds visited by the rover Opportunity
