Product Information: In this Global Slope Data Record (GSDR) the surface meter-scale slopes are derived by fitting altimeter echoes from the fan-beam altimetry antenna as a function of time to…
Abstract Diurnal and annual temperature variations in some Atypical Pit Craters (APCs) on Mars may be affected by the presence of interior cave entrances (Cushing et al., 2007; Cushing et al.,…
The Mars Volatiles and Climate Surveyor (MVACS) instrument payload on the Mars Polar Lander includes two imagers designed and constructed at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of…
We re-examine a previously unpublished digital elevation model (DEM) of a ~105,000km2 area (figure 1) of Tithonium and Ius Chasma area, produced by the EXODUS (Extraterrestrial Orbital DEMs for…
Positional control for MDIM 2.1 comes from a new geodetic/photogrammetric solution of the global Mars Mariner 9 and Viking image control network. The details of this network solution are described…
This paper focusses on the estimation of exterior orientation parameters of the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) orbiting planet Mars during the European Mars Express mission since January 2004.…
The High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board of the European space mission Mars Express provides multispectral digital image data in high resolution as well as the systematic stereo coverage of…
Crater Size-Frequency Distributions (SFD) on planetary surfaces are crucial to dating the geological age. On the Moon they have been employed together with radioactive K-Ar techniques to determine…
The RAND-USGS control network of Mars is a combination of the RAND control network and the USGS network.
The International Mars Conference highlights the wealth of scientific data now and soon to be acquired from an international armada of Mars-bound robotic spacecraft. Underlying the planning and…
The MGS Orbiter is carrying the high-precision Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) which, when combined with precision reconstructed orbital data and telemetered attitude data, provides a tie between…
We describe an interactive terrain visualization system which rapidly generates and interactively displays photorealistic three-dimensional (3-D) models produced from stereo images. This product,…
The NEAR mission produced shape models of asteroid 433 Eros by both the imaging team and the altimetry team. Preliminary models by both teams at the 2 degree x 2 degree resolution, equivalent to…
Recent geodetic observations of Mars by the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft, particularly the altimetry and gravity experiments, have provided a new framework in which Mars may be geodetically…
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…
The USGS is producing digital elevation models (DEM) and topographic maps of Mars at scales of 1:250,000 to 1:1,000,000. The initial source material will be Viking Orbiter images, with a later…
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…
A basic requirement for the planning of future, perhaps even manned Mars missions are precise and high resolution maps of our neighbour planet and, especially, of the landing area. Here we present a…
