RedMapper Begins

WHY MARS?

Eian and Tyler Ray are the garage band of the space mapping industry. They started RedMapper in 2019 to fill a need they saw on the horizon of space exploration. "With all the talk of SpaceX, Blue Origin, and NASA going to Mars," Eian said, "We knew that at some point these explorers are going to need to know where to put boots on the ground and the rest of us are going to want to know where that is". From this idea, The Mars Atlas was born. It brought the otherworldly place of Mars into one’s hands with all named places clearly demarcated. If a news article references a feature on mars then someone with The Mars Atlas can flip to the index, look it up, and see where it is on the surface relative to other features. Places like Olympus Mons, Valles Marinares, and Elysium are no longer places of fantasy, like those of Middle Earth. In actuality, more people are likely to know where The Shire is relative to Mordor than they do Tharsis to that of Helles Planitia. We want to change that. The idea is, if you want to go somewhere, you'll want a map. We have a map.

ONE DAY THE PLACES OF MARS WILL BE HOUSEHOLD NAMES.

We actually had our first conversation about RedMapper while hiking near Crystal Mountain in Washington State. Having backpacked through the night, we took off to climb a nearby peak the following morning. Eian is always spit-balling ideas and he drops this one on me, he said “There is a new generation of people who are in school today that will be standing on Mars one day, and unfortunately the surface is virtually unknown to most of them”. One year later to the date we were knee-deep shipping out the first 600 copies of the first edition of The Mars Atlas while simultaneously publishing Mars Portal on its own website.

The Mars Atlas is a giant leap in bringing Mars closer to home, by putting it in your home.