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Mars 2020 Terrain Relative Navigation HiRISE DTM Mosaic thumbnail

Mars 2020 Terrain Relative Navigation HiRISE DTM Mosaic

image/tiff 1 kBJul 24 2020

The Mars 2020 rover will explore Jezero crater, Mars to investigate an ancient delta for evidence of past microbial life and to better understand the geologic history of the region. The landing…

Moon Apollo 17 LROC NAC Landing Site Orthomosaic 50cm v1 thumbnail

Moon Apollo 17 LROC NAC Landing Site Orthomosaic 50cm v1

application/zip 6 MBMay 01 2018

Product Information: This is an (ortho-) mosaic map of the Apollo 17 landing site (L15K 20.2/30.7East COMT). The map includes nomenclature, elevation contours, the astronauts' major geology stops,…

Mars MGS MOLA - MEX HRSC Blended DEM Global 200m v2 thumbnail

Mars MGS MOLA - MEX HRSC Blended DEM Global 200m v2

application/octet-stream 1 kBJan 31 2018

Product Information: This data product, now at version 2, is a blend of digital elevation model (DEM) data derived from the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA), an instrument aboard NASA’s Mars…

Pluto New Horizons LORRI - MVIC Global DEM 300m v1 thumbnail

Pluto New Horizons LORRI - MVIC Global DEM 300m v1

application/isis 1 GBJul 14 2017

Product Information: This detailed, high-quality global mosaic of Pluto was assembled from nearly all of the highest-resolution images obtained by the Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) and…

Charon New Horizons LORRI MVIC Global DEM 300m v1 thumbnail

Charon New Horizons LORRI MVIC Global DEM 300m v1

application/isis 313 MBJul 14 2017

Product Information: This detailed, high-quality global mosaic of Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, was assembled from nearly all of the highest-resolution images obtained by the LORRI and the…

Mars MSL Gale Merged DEM 1m v3 thumbnail

Mars MSL Gale Merged DEM 1m v3

image/tiff 170 kBOct 20 2016

Product Information: This digital elevation model (DEM) was initially created as an assessment tool for the entry, descent, and landing (EDL) analysis conducted by the Mars Science Laborarory (MSL)…

Moon LRO LOLA - SELENE Kaguya TC Shaded Relief Merge 60N60S 59m v1 thumbnail

Moon LRO LOLA - SELENE Kaguya TC Shaded Relief Merge 60N60S 59m v1

image/jpeg 199 kBSep 08 2015

Product Information: The Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) and SELenological and Engineering Explorer (SELENE) Kaguya Teams have created this shaded relief of the improved lunar digital elevation…

Moon LRO LOLA - SELENE Kaguya TC DEM Merge 60N60S 59m v1 thumbnail

Moon LRO LOLA - SELENE Kaguya TC DEM Merge 60N60S 59m v1

image/jpeg 112 kBFeb 04 2015

Product Information: The Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) and SELenological and Engineering Explorer (SELENE) Kaguya Teams have created an improved lunar digital elevation model (DEM) covering…

Moon LRO LOLA DEM 118m v1 thumbnail

Moon LRO LOLA DEM 118m v1

image/jpeg 95 kBMar 11 2014

Product Information: This digital elevation model (DEM) is based on data from the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA; Smith et al., 2010), an instrument on the National Aeronautics and Space Agency…

Moon LRO LOLA Color Shaded Relief 388m v4  thumbnail

Moon LRO LOLA Color Shaded Relief 388m v4

application/isis 3 GBAug 01 2011

Product Information: This is a colorized shaded-relief of a original polar digital elevation model (DEM) from the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA; Smith et al., 2010), an instrument on the…

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Moon Apollo Image Processing

http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/maps/moon-apollo-image-processing

In the early 1970s, specialized cameras onboard the Command Modules of the last three Apollo missions (15, 16, 17) photographed nearly 25% of the Moon in stunning detail. Today, scientists from…

Mercury MESSENGER Global Digital Elevation Model thumbnail

Mercury MESSENGER Global Digital Elevation Model

http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/maps/mercury-messenger-global-digital-elevation-model

From the USGS press release: The first topographic map of Mercury was released by the U.S. Geological Survey, Arizona State University, Carnegie Institute of Washington, Johns Hopkins University…

Interactive GIS Map of the Moon thumbnail

Interactive GIS Map of the Moon

http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/facilities/mrctr/moon-online-map

Layers available for download from:USGS AstrogeologyData Portal: Astropediahistorical FTP downloads

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Moon Control Networks

http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/maps/control-networks/moon

Lunar Orbiter Lunar Control Network 2004 The USGS worked to digitize and restore a global set of Lunar Orbiter images and to assemble this into a global digital Lunar Orbiter mosaic of the Moon. A…

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Venus Magellan Impact Crater Database

http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/geology/venus-magellan-crater-database

The Crater Database The database tables include the name (where applied), coordinates, diameter, modification state, crater morphologic type, and mean elevation of 967 craters interpreted to be of…

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Sub-ice Volcanism on Earth and Mars

http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/geology/mars-volcano-ice-interactions

Sub-glacially erupted volcanoes form free-standing flat-topped mesas, known as tuyas. Although there are some silicic edifices (e.g. Tuffen et al., 2002), most terrestrial sub-ice volcanoes are mafic…

Valles Marineris - The Grand Canyon of Mars thumbnail

Valles Marineris - The Grand Canyon of Mars

http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/geology/mars-valles-marineris

The Valles Marineris is a system of canyons located just south of the Martian equator. The system is about 4000 km long, and, if on earth, would extend all the way across the United States. The…

Evidence of Cryovolcanism on Titan thumbnail

Evidence of Cryovolcanism on Titan

http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/geology/titan-cryovolcanism

From NASA Press Release…New data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveal topography on Saturn's moon Titan that makes the best case yet for an ice volcano on Titan and reveals the most…

Mars Science Laboratory - Landing Site Selection thumbnail

Mars Science Laboratory - Landing Site Selection

http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/maps/mars-science-laboratory-landing-site-selection

Image Information and Instructions The ISIS cube file can be loaded into JMars as a custom map. You can download JMars at the following site: http://jmars.asu.eduFor instructions on how to load a…

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Callisto Voyager and Galileo Global Mosaics

http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/maps/callisto-voyager-galileo-global-mosaics

This global map of Callisto utilizes the best image quality and moderate resolution coverage supplied by Galileo SSI (Solid State Imaging instrument) and Voyager 1 and 2. The image processing was…

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Zebker et al. Size and Shape of Saturn's Moon Titan thumbnail

Zebker et al. Size and Shape of Saturn's Moon Titan

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Cassini observations show that Saturn’s moon Titan is slightly oblate. A fourth-order spherical harmonic expansion yields north polar, south polar, and mean equatorial radii of 2574.32 T 0.05…

Lorenz et al. 2013 Titan Topographic Map of Titan thumbnail

Lorenz et al. 2013 Titan Topographic Map of Titan

application/pdf 7 MB

Cassini RADAR SARtopo and altimetry data are used to construct a global gridded 1 x 1° elevation map, for use in Global Circulation Models, hydrological models and correlative studies. The data are…

ISPRS 1998 Relationship of the New MOLA Topography of Mars to Existing Maps and Models thumbnail

ISPRS 1998 Relationship of the New MOLA Topography of Mars to Existing Maps and Models

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A comparison of the MOLA topographic profile data with existing digital topography indicates the presence of both systematic and significant local and regional differences. These differences are in…

ISPRS 1998 Digital Topographic Mapping of Mercury thumbnail

ISPRS 1998 Digital Topographic Mapping of Mercury

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We describe a cartographic project to re-process and semi-automatically stereo match Mariner 10 vidicon stereo pair images. Three different patch-based digital stereo matching algorithms have been…

ISPRS 1999 Global Mapping and Individual Map Sheets - The Topographic Image Map Series Mars 1:200 000 thumbnail

ISPRS 1999 Global Mapping and Individual Map Sheets - The Topographic Image Map Series Mars 1:200 000

application/pdf 193 kB

More than ever before the planet Mars is subject to exploration and mapping activities. Since 1992 the Technical University of Berlin was involved in the software development for photogrammetric and…

ISPRS 2001 Topographic Mapping of the Galilean and Other Icy Satellites: Prospects and Problems for Stereo and Photoclinometry thumbnail

ISPRS 2001 Topographic Mapping of the Galilean and Other Icy Satellites: Prospects and Problems for Stereo and Photoclinometry

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The utility (read: need) of topographic data in formulating and testing hypotheses for the formation of geologic features is undisputed. In the absence of laser altimeters, however, image-based…

ISPRS 2001 Combining Lunar Photogrammetric Topographic Data with Clementine LIDAR Data thumbnail

ISPRS 2001 Combining Lunar Photogrammetric Topographic Data with Clementine LIDAR Data

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During the Clementine Mission both oblique and vertical multispectral images were collected. The oblique and vertical images from a single spectral band collected during the same orbit form a stereo…

ISPRS 2001 Validation of the USGS Sensor Model for Topographic Mapping of Venus Using Magellan Radar Stereoimagery thumbnail

ISPRS 2001 Validation of the USGS Sensor Model for Topographic Mapping of Venus Using Magellan Radar Stereoimagery

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The Magellan spacecraft went into Venus orbit in 1990 and by 1992 had made three complete cycles of polar orbits, each cycle covering the full range of longitudes. During this time the spacecraft…

ISPRS 2002 High-Resolution Topomapping of Mars Orbiter Camera Narrow-Angle Images thumbnail

ISPRS 2002 High-Resolution Topomapping of Mars Orbiter Camera Narrow-Angle Images

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We describe our initial experiences producing controlled digital elevation models (DEMs) of Mars with horizontal resolutions of ≤10 m and vertical precisions of ≤2 m. Such models are of intense…

ISPRS 2002 High Precision Landing Site Mapping and Rover Localization by Integrated Bundle Adjustment of MPF Surface Images thumbnail

ISPRS 2002 High Precision Landing Site Mapping and Rover Localization by Integrated Bundle Adjustment of MPF Surface Images

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High-precision topographic information from all available data is crucial to many landing site geological and engineering applications. At the same time, precise navigation and localization of the…