I made this map for Earth last week and you seemed to like it so here is it for Mars, the distribution of elevation levels on the earths surface. I have used a blue-red colourmap to give it the illusion of oceans. Negative values indicate terrain below the Mars areoid — a gravitational reference surface defined where atmospheric pressure equals 610.5 Pa (the triple point of water) — which serves as the zero-elevation datum in place of a sea level.

@PythonMaps Is the more extreme topology a result of less weathering?

@AnthonyCastrio Is the topography more extreme?

@PythonMaps more and spikier spikes on the mars graph to my eye interpreting this as more surface area at those spikes in elevation with less smooth transition between them vs earth