RICK JOHNSON'S
BARSOOMIAN ATLAS

BARSOOM IN FULL COLOR


by: Rick Johnson
PO Box 40451
Tucson, Az.
85717
RikJohnson@juno.com

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This is how I believe Barsoom looked in the past when the five oceans covered the globe and the Orovar civilization was at its height.

And this is how the planet looks today, the oceans dried and the waterways stretching across the world.

A few notes here:

  1. The blue is the Oceans. I see the Throxeus as being two oceans, East and West. Korus and Torquas are in the south and Omean underground. Today they are covered with thick moss.
  2. Torquas is connected to Throxeus by two Major waterways, one directly north and one east then turning north at the Valley of Helium.
  3. The red is desert, low desert. Think something similar to a cross between the Sahara and the Arizona-Sonoran Deserts. Moss and vegetation is sparse with lots of rocks.
  4. The brown strip is High Desert. Not as rocky, cooler and with slightly more vegetation.
  5. There is a band of intermittent forest along the Equator. These are watered by the Jet Stream that crossed the Artolian and cuts south to keep the forests alive.
  6. Most waterways come from the north because the Northern icecap is stable. The Southern changes in size so it was easier to pump water from the north than fight the changing southern icecap.
  7. Korus is not at the pole but near the South Pole. Den Valdron has an excellent argument for that.


Here is Barsoom divided into grids. the uppermost section is a1, the one next is a2 and so on. Helium is in grid-d7/8 to e7/7.

It is a lot like Area-51 where the US keeps the flying saucers.
There is NO such place! But, if you look at a sectional map of Nevada, in Grid Area #51 there is the Groom Lake Test Facility.
BTW, the USAF keeps the flying Saucers in Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio. And the Groom lake Facility was recently moved to Colorado.

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by: Rick Johnson
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