Astrogeology Science Center

USGS

New website released for the Planetary Geologic Mapping Program

17 April 2013

Astrogeology's Planetary Geologic Mapping Program is pleased to announce a renovated website. The new site is built to help the planetary community locate completed geologic maps, track maps currently in progress, and find regions which are not yet funded to be mapped. The original website will be… Read More

Renovated lunar GIS geologic files released

26 March 2013

The digital 1:5,000,000-scale lunar geologic map series (I-703, I-948, I-1034, I-1047, I-1062, and I-1162) are now released and available for download. These renovated GIS databases utilized new topographic data and image mosaics to spatially adjust the contacts, structures, geologic and surface… Read More

Mapper Tip: ArcMap 10.x Snap to Sketch

25 February 2013

Mapper Tip: Have you ever needed to snap to a line that you are currently editing (e.g. crater rim or closed basin)? At version 10, ArcMap introduced "snap to sketch" to allow this capability. see: http://bit.ly/Snap2Sketch

Yearly Planetary Geologic Mappers Meeting

15 February 2013

The yearly Planetary Geologic  Mappers meeting will be held at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. on Wednesday, June 19 through Friday, June 21. Please see flyer at http://bit.ly/PGM2013_FlyerThe yearly Planetary Geologic Mappers meeting will be held at the Smithsonian Institute in… Read More