Evolution and Habitability of Ocean Worlds

Each world has a story to tell...

Cover with title and list of contributors.

An ocean world can come in many forms. From icy to algae covered and anywhere in between.

An accurate, to-scale, cut-away of the different sections in the Earth's interior.

Using NASA imagery, a small, high-res section of the Maine coast looks like a new alien world when blown up to cover an entire planet.

I used Mathematica to generate terrain maps for some of the planets. I used a diamond-square method, which I explain and provide a copy of the code on my blog.

Using altimetry data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and Mathematica I created maps of Mars with different water levels and colors.

Under the hood view of the arrangement and compositor.