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Iapetus Cassini - Voyager Global Mosaic 803m v1 thumbnail

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…

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Tethys Cassini Global Mosaic 293m v2

application/isis 63 MB

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…

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Dione Cassini - Voyager Global Mosaic 154m v1

application/isis 253 MB

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…

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Titan Cassini ISS Near Global Mosaic 450m v1

application/isis 1 GB

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…

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Rhea Cassini - Voyager Global Mosaic 417m v2

application/isis 63 MB

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…

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Enceladus Cassini ISS Global Point Cloud v1

text/xml 8 kBAug 28 2020

This 3D point cloud describes the global shape of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. The model is both near-global in extent and relatively high "resolution", and is intended to support scientific…

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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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Dione Pictorial Map and Controlled Photomosaic

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Map a Planet

http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/tools/map-a-planet

Welcome to Map-A-Planet MAP (v2) allows users to select global image mosaics for download, or with an account, one can also request the mosaic be map projected, clipped to extents, run pre-defined…

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IAU - WGCCRE

http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/groups/iau-wgccre

History: The IAU Working Group on Cartographic Coordinates and Rotational Elements of the Planets and Satellites was established as a consequence of a resolution adopted by Commissions 4 and 16 at…

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Cassini Observations of Io's Visible Aurorae

http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/geology/io-cassini-visible-aurorae

Detailed comparisons of laboratory SO2 spectra with the Cassini observations indicate that a mixture of gases contribute to the equatorial emissions: Potassium (K) is suggested by new detections of…

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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…

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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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Saturn Satellites Voyager Global Image Maps

http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/maps/saturn-satellites-voyager-global-maps

The following products were the first step of cartography planning in support of the Cassini-Huygens mission to the Saturian System. Five of Saturans moons are linked below in a standard cartographic…

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Initial Global Control Network and Moasicking of ISS Images of Titan

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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 future missions, we have…

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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…

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Lorenz et al. 2013 Titan Topographic Map of Titan

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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…

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ISPRS 2003 Voyager Base Maps of the Icy Saturnian Satellites

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The Cassini spacecraft will begin its tour through the Saturnian system in July 2004. One major goal of the imaging instrument aboard Cassini is to complete the global coverage of the icy Saturnian…

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ISPRS 2003 Evolving Automated Feature Extraction Algorithms for Planetary Science

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Planetary exploration missions have returned a wealth of imagery data over the last 40 years. The problem is how to make best use of it all. Thoroughly analyzing such large datasets manually is…

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ISPRS 2004 Cartography of the Saturnian Satellites

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We have re-measured control points and re-computed a control point network for Saturn’s satellite Dione. Our network is based on 16 images (obtained by the narrow-angle cameras of Voyager I and…

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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…