Thread: Why is the standard to show South top in planetary images?
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Old 01-11-2009, 10:27 AM
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Why is the standard to show South top in planetary images?
Why is the standard to show South top in planetary images? Why would that have been adopted as the standard when every map and plan of Earth has North up? Been meaning to ask this for a while.
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