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Tethys Cassini Global Mosaic 293m v2

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Product Information: This global map of Saturn's moon Tethys was created using images taken during Cassini spacecraft flybys which mostly occurred during the Solstice mission extension. The map is…

Rhea Cassini - Voyager Global Mosaic 417m v2

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Product Information: This global digital map was created using data taken during Cassini and Voyager spacecraft flybys of Rhea. It is the first mosaic of Rhea to be created using mostly only Cassini…

Dione Cassini - Voyager Global Mosaic 154m v1

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Product Information: This global map of Saturn's moon Dione was created using images taken during flybys by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Images from NASA's Voyager mission fill the gaps in Cassini's…

Ganymede Voyager - Galileo SSI Color Global Mosaic 1.4km v1

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Product Information: This global mosaic of Ganymede utilizes the best image quality and moderate resolution coverage supplied by Galileo Solid-State Imaging (SSI) and Voyager 1 and 2. The image data…

Ganymede Voyager - Galileo SSI Global Mosaic 1km v1

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Mars MGS MOLA DEM 463m v2

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Product Information: This digital elevation model (DEM) is based on data from the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA; Smith et al., 2001), an instrument on NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)…

Titan Cassini ISS Near Global Mosaic 450m v1

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Product Information: The Cassini mission has returned an abundance of data about the surface of Titan. To maximize the science return from these data and to assist with planning for Cassini and…

Venus Magellan Global C3-MDIR Mosaic 2025m v1

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Product Information: This mosaic was created from the Magellan Full resolution Basic Image Data Records (F-BIDRs), the highest resolution radar images of the Venus surface (~75 meters per pixel…

Iapetus Cassini - Voyager Global Mosaic 803m v1

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Product Information: This global map of Iapetus was created using images taken during Cassini spacecraft flybys, with Voyager images filling in the poles. The map is a Simple Cylindrical projection…

Venus Magellan Global C3-MDIR Synthetic Color Mosaic 4641m v1

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Product Information: This synthetic colorized version of the C3-MIDR mosaic was developed to simulate the surface of Venus. This mosaic was created from the Magellan Full resolution Basic Image Data…

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ISPRS 1998 Status of the RAND Control Network of Mars

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The RAND control network of Mars was begun during the Mariner 9 mission, and it has been expanded and improved since then. The network is based on measurements of points made on images taken by the…

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 1998 New Map Products from Planet Mars

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The map sheet "MARS 1:2,000,000 Mouth of Ares and Tiu Valles" presents the mapped area on the planet's northern hemisphere in two different cartographic categories. The Image Map, portraying the…

ISPRS 1998 Getting to know SPICE

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The SPICE ancillary information system developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory offers a flexible, multimission suite of data containers and related software--a subroutine library--for…

ISPRS 1999 Assessment of Published Viking Orbiter DEMs derived from Stereo Photogrammetry using MOLA Data

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Described the exciting results which have been obtained from the initial set of mainly Northern hemispheric laser altimetry tracks from the MOLA instrument known as the SPO-1 phase. More recently has…

ISPRS 1999 Triaxial Ellipsoid as a Reference-Surface on Mars Mapping

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At the development of a mathematical basis of cartographic products the problems of selection of a reference-surface system, system of coordinates, and also selection and elaboration of cartographic…

ISPRS 1999 Revision of the Mars Control Net and Global Digital Image Mosaic

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In the late 1980s, the USGS, Flagstaff, produced the first in what would become a series of very large, global digital image mosaics of solar system bodies. This Mars mosaicked digital image model…

ISPRS 1999 A Database of Viking Orbiter Image Coverage of Mars for Cartographic and Scientific Use

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Viking Orbiters 1 and 2 collectively returned more than 46,000 images of Mars between 1976 and 1980. Numerous observation sequences with different objectives resulted in an extremely complex and…

ISPRS 1999 USGS Mapping of the Mars Pathfinder Landing Site: Progress and Plans

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This abstract describes progress in cartographic processing of data from the Imager for Mars Pathfinder (IMP) by the U. S. Geological Survey in the past year, and plans for advanced cartographic…

ISPRS 1999 Stereogrammetric Mapping on Mars: Promise, Progress, and Problems

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To assist in landing site selection, we are compiling a suite of stereo images of potential landing sites for the 1998 and 2001 Mars landers. From these, we are using automated stereogrammetry…