Planet Mars art/texture thing

[Kibble]

So I was learning about the colors Mars would look to the human eye, and then I found a equirectangular map of Mars, and used the Photoshop Cutout and Posterize filters to make it look like cartoony, and then I used the Match Colors filter to make it fit the Martian colour scheme. Then I (this part was super long and super hard) learned how to draw a great circle on an equirectangular plot, and filled in one half with black for the night side, and then with the Photoshop 3D feature to map it to a sphere.

Its like a (geographically and visually accurate) cartoon of Mars!

(Edit!) Updated to be more sophisticated! The new image is how Mars would appear to a satellite looking from the Sun-Mars Lagrange Point-1, at the time and date of this edit. (Roughly 1:00 Martian Universal Time, in Mars Northern hemisphere's mid-winter)

Edited March 19, 2015 by Kibble