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Moon Apollo 17 LROC NAC DEM 1.5m v1 thumbnail

Moon Apollo 17 LROC NAC DEM 1.5m v1

image/tiff 1 kBMay 01 2018

Product Information: This is a digital elevation model (DEM/DTM) of the Apollo 17 landing site generated from stereo images provided by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) Narrow Angle…

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Triton Voyager 2 Global Color Mosaic 600m v1

application/isis 291 MBAug 21 2014

Product Information: Voyager 2 data was used to construct the best-ever global color map of Triton. This map has a resolution of 1,970 feet (600 meters per pixel [m]). Color was synthesized by…

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Moon LROC WAC DTM GLD100 118m v1

application/isis 7 GBAug 01 2013

Product Information: This product represents a near-global lunar topography from stereo image data acquired by the Wide-angle Camera (WAC) of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) system…

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Moon Apollo Metric Albedo Mosaic v1

application/pds-img 84 kBJan 15 2010

The Apollo Metric Cameras were carried on the Apollo 15, 16, and 17 missions to map Earth’s Moon with a high degree of geometric fidelity. This PDS volume contains the "Apollo 15, 16, and 17…

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Moon Clementine UVVIS Global Mosaic 118m v2

application/octet-stream 2 kBApr 09 2009

Product Information: The Clementine Ultraviolet/Visible (UVVIS) Version 2 mosaic is a grayscale data set representing the albedo (brightness of the lunar surface) as measured at the 750 nanometer…

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Moon Clementine UVVIS Warped Color Ratio Mosaic 200m v1

application/isis 4 GBAug 15 2008

Product Information: This base represents the Clementine Ultraviolet/Visible (UVVIS) warped color-ratio mineral map. This was generated from the UVVIS mosaics using three spectral filters (415,…

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Moon Clementine UVVIS 5 Band Warped Image Mosaic 200m v1

application/isis 14 GBMar 01 2008

Product Information: The Clementine Ultraviolet/Visible (UVVIS) mosaic of Earth's Moon is a radiometrically and geometrically controlled, photometrically modeled global Mosaicked Digital Image Model…

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Moon Apollo Lunar Sample Photographs

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Product Information: This set of archive volumes contains digital scanned versions of original film photographs of rock, soil, and core samples collected from the lunar surface during the Apollo 11,…

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Moon LRO South Pole DEM Shaded Relief

image/tiff 97 MB

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) consists of one Wide Angle Camera (WAC) for synoptic multispectral imaging and two Narrow Angle Cameras (NAC) that provide high-resolution images (0.5…

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Moon SELENE Kaguya TC Global Orthomosaic 474m v2

application/isis 506 MB

Product Information: This near-global mosaic was generated using data from the SELenological and Engineering Explorer (SELENE) “Kaguya” Terrain Camera (TC) instrument. TC source data originated…

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Control Networks

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

Table of Contents Mercury R O Venus R Moon1 R Mars R G Phobos O Deimos O Asteroids   243 Ida R 433 Eros O 951 Gaspra R Jupiter   Io R G O Europa R G Ganymede R…

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Zond8 Lunar Consortium Historical Data Archive

http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/maps/moon-zond8-historical-data-archive

Photographic hardcopy scans of 1970 photographs captured by a Soyuz 7K-L1 unmanned spacecraft on the soviet Zond8 mission. This data along with data from Apollo, Lunar Orbiter and Galileo missions is…

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Moon Apollo Anaglyph 3D Images

http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/maps/moon-apollo-anaglyph-3d-images

This gallery features several digitized photographs from Apollo Mission explorations of the lunar surface. Anaglyph or 3D images require red-blue or red-green 3D glasses. The imagery and maps…

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Moon Apollo Traverse Maps

http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/maps/moon-apollo-traverse-maps

This page features several maps showing routes the astronauts took during extravehicular activities (EVAs). The imagery and maps were prepared as part of a project by a USGS team under funding from…

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Moon Apollo Landing Panoramas

http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/maps/moon-apollo-landing-panoramas

The following 360° panoramas were created using digitized photographs collected by the astronauts during the Apollo 11 - 17 lunar exploration missions. The imagery and maps were prepared as part…

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Io Voyager and Galileo Global Mosaics

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

This basemap of Jupiter’s moon Io was produced by combining the best images from both the Voyager 1 and Galileo Missions. Although the subjovian hemisphere of Io was poorly seen by Galileo,…

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Moon Clementine NIR Global Map

http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/maps/moon-clementine-near-ir-global-map

Background In May and June of 1994, the NASA/DoD Clementine Mission acquired global, 11-band, multispectral data of the lunar surface using the ultraviolet-visible (UVVIS) and near-infrared (NIR)…

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Maps and Globes

http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/maps/planetary-maps-and-globes

Download, print, and make your own planetary globes! The number, size, and placement of text annotations were chosen to provide a general orientation of prominent features on a 12-inch globe. …

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ISPRS 2003 Photoclinometry Made Simple...? thumbnail

ISPRS 2003 Photoclinometry Made Simple...?

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We describe a series of programs and scripts under development for the USGS digital cartography and image processing software system ISIS that will make it possible for users to create digital…

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ISPRS 2003 GIS 101 for Planetary Research

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GIS-like tools have existed in the computer age since scientists have been displaying images or comparing digital datasets. Whether it was a program on a mainframe to draw a satellite image to…

ISPRS 2003 Low Resolution Planetary Experiments: Gridding and Mapping Routines using IDL thumbnail

ISPRS 2003 Low Resolution Planetary Experiments: Gridding and Mapping Routines using IDL

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We present a toolkit of routines for IDL. This toolkit converts a set of coordinates and data sorted by acquisition time into a map. It was developed at first for low-resolution data that require…

ISPRS 2003 A Systematic Approach for Optimizing Spectral and Spatial Matching Between Independent Datasets thumbnail

ISPRS 2003 A Systematic Approach for Optimizing Spectral and Spatial Matching Between Independent Datasets

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In the field of Earth observation and planetary exploration, a number of spacecrafts have been equipped in the last years with various multispectral and/or hyperspectral optical instruments spanning…

ISPRS 2003 Cartographic Support to Venglobgek International Project on the General Geologic Mapping of Venus: The Main Outlines thumbnail

ISPRS 2003 Cartographic Support to Venglobgek International Project on the General Geologic Mapping of Venus: The Main Outlines

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The planet Venus is the second largest (after the Earth) body among the terrestrial-type planets. The surface of Venus is 460x106 km2, which is three times larger than the area of the dry land…

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ISPRS 2003 Utilizing GIS in Martian Impact Crater Studies

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The Mars Crater Morphology Consortium was formed in 1997 to facilitate exchange of martian impact crater data among researchers through standardizing nomenclature, integrating crater databases into…

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ISPRS 2004 Multi-Image Shape from Shading, Derivation of Planetary Digital Terrain Models Using Clementine Images

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In many cases, the derivation of high-resolution digital terrain models (DTMs) from planetary surfaces using only conventional digital image matching is a problem. The matching methods need at least…

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ISPRS 2004 Combining Mars Data in GRASS GIS for Geologic Mapping

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Geo Information Systems (GIS) are standard tools in the Earth sciences whenever different geographic data sets must be combined. GIS became increasingly popular in the field of planetary research as…

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ISPRS 2004 Topographic Mapping of Mars from Hectometer to Micrometer Scales

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We describe USGS topomapping of Mars at resolutions from 100 m to 30 µm with data from the latest spacecraft missions. Analysis of NASA 2001 Mars Odyssey Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS)…

ISPRS 2004 Some Aspects of Multilingual Planetary Map Producing for Non-Professional Audience: Visualization and Nomenclature thumbnail

ISPRS 2004 Some Aspects of Multilingual Planetary Map Producing for Non-Professional Audience: Visualization and Nomenclature

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In general, maps should answer a very simple question of its reader: "what's there" and „where is something”? For planetary maps, the answer is more difficult, because (1) in some cases even map…