Mars is lopsided - called ๐๐๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐๐ง ๐๐ข๐๐ก๐จ๐ญ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฒ. Oceans in North, continents in south - if ones imagines water on Mars at the same 71% surface area as water on Earth.
Mars topography is like Yin-Yang symbol: its highest spot Olympus Mons (solar system tallest mountain) is in lowlands North, and its lowest spot Hellas Planitia (one of the largest craters in solar system) is in highlands South.
Amazingly simple programing trick gives minimal Wolfram code below to visualize all this fascinating and unique Mars topography.
The trick: sample Mars geo-elevation uniformly from equal-area map projection and then quantile points at 71% - the value you get splits lowlands and highlands. If you flood lowlands to that value it yields 71% global water surface.
๐ด WOLFRAM CODE:
elSamp = Flatten @ QuantityMagnitude @ GeoElevationData[
GeoProjection -> "CylindricalEqualArea",
GeoZoomLevel -> 1, GeoRange -> "World", GeoModel -> "Mars"
];
tHeight = Rescale[Quantile[elSamp, 0.71], MinMax[elSamp]];
GeoGraphics[
GeoModel -> "Mars", GeoRange -> "World", GeoProjection -> "VanDerGrinten",
GeoBackground -> GeoStyling["ReliefMap",
ColorFunction -> (If[# < tHeight, StandardBlue, StandardOrange] &)
]
]