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Terapixel Mars

Terapixel Mars is a real-time planetary experience that lets you traverse the Red Planet seamlessly from orbit down to the surface. Powered by the Terapixel engine, Mars is stored in the cloud and streamed to your system, enabling a level of scale and immersion unmatched by any existing experience.

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Mechanical Softworks
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Mechanical Softworks
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About the Game

The entire planet Mars. In your hands.

Terapixel Mars gives you something no human has ever experienced: the freedom to walk, fly, and explore every square meter of the Martian surface. Built from real orbital imagery, this is Mars as it actually exists - ancient volcanoes three times the height of Everest, canyon systems that dwarf the Grand Canyon, impact craters spanning hundreds of kilometers.

Seamless exploration at planetary scale

Travel from Olympus Mons to Valles Marineris without a single loading screen. The entire 145 million square kilometers of Mars streams seamlessly as you explore - whether you're skimming meters above rust-red dunes or standing in the shadow of geological wonders billions of years old. At 5 meters per pixel resolution for surface texture and 100 meters per pixel for terrain elevation, you'll see Mars in breathtaking detail.

Built from real data

Every cliff face, every crater rim, every ancient river bed you encounter comes from actual orbital reconnaissance data. This isn't an artist's interpretation - it's the Red Planet as revealed by decades of Mars missions.

Your way to explore

Experience Mars in immersive VR or explore using traditional desktop controls. Walk the surface at human scale, or accelerate to impossible speeds and race across hemispheres. The choice is yours.

What awaits you:

  • Complete freedom to explore all 145 million km² of the Martian surface

  • Seamless streaming technology - zero loading screens, ever

  • 5m/pixel surface detail and 100m/pixel terrain elevation from real orbital data

  • Full VR support with optional desktop mode

  • Discover Olympus Mons, Valles Marineris, Gale Crater, and countless unexplored landscapes

  • Experience the true scale of another world

Stand where rovers have rolled. Peer into craters untouched since the solar system formed.

Mars is waiting.

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