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Alexis Madrigal - Alexis Madrigal is a senior editor at The Atlantic. He's the author of Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology.
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The New York Observer calls him, "for all intents and purposes, the perfect modern reporter." Madrigal co-founded Longshot magazine, a high-speed media experiment that garnered attention from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the BBC. While at Wired.com, he built Wired Science into one of the most popular blogs in the world. The site was nominated for best magazine blog by the MPA and best science Web site in the 2009 Webby Awards. He also co-founded Haiti ReWired, a groundbreaking community dedicated to the discussion of technology, infrastructure, and the future of Haiti.

He's spoken at Stanford, CalTech, Berkeley, SXSW, E3, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and his writing was anthologized in Best Technology Writing 2010 (Yale University Press).

Madrigal is a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley's Office for the History of Science and Technology. Born in Mexico City, he grew up in the exurbs north of Portland, Oregon, and now lives in Oakland.
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Best Mars Map Ever Released

By Alexis Madrigal

Jul 23 2010, 12:40 PM ET Comment

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Eight years worth of observations of the Red Planet by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft have been compiled into the most accurate map ever of our neighbor.

A new NASA website displays all of the 21,000 images stitched and blended together, so you can seamlessly pan and zoom around. If you zoom all the way in, you can see Martian features as small as 330 feet across.

Maps like this pose an interesting question for space exploration proponents. Human spaceflight is a difficult and expensive enterprise, but is seeing the solar system through our robots' eyes enough?

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