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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…

Mars MSL Gale Merged Orthophoto Mosaic 25cm v3 thumbnail

Mars MSL Gale Merged Orthophoto Mosaic 25cm v3

image/tiff 4 MBOct 20 2016

Product Information: This basemap was initially created as an assessment tool for the entry, descent, and landing (EDL) analysis conducted by the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) engineering team to…

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)…

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Phobos Viking Global Mosaic 5m v1

application/isis 99 MBJun 01 2012

Product Information: This mosaic of Phobos was created by compiling updated versions of Viking high-resolution mosaics and selecting the best high-resolution images from other spacecraft to…

Mars MGS MOLA DEM 463m v2 thumbnail

Mars MGS MOLA DEM 463m v2

application/isis 2 GB

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)…

Mars MRO MARCI Daily Global Weather Maps PDS4 Archive thumbnail

Mars MRO MARCI Daily Global Weather Maps PDS4 Archive

image/jpeg 383 kBMay 03 2018

Product Information: This PDS4-compliant archive contains version 2.0 Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) Mars Color Imager (MARCI) Mars Daily Global Maps (MDGMs). Each MDGM is a daily global mosaic…

Mars MGS MOLA Global Color Shaded Relief 463m v1 thumbnail

Mars MGS MOLA Global Color Shaded Relief 463m v1

application/isis 3 GB

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

Mars MGS MOLA - MEX HRSC Blended Shaded Relief 200m v2 thumbnail

Mars MGS MOLA - MEX HRSC Blended Shaded Relief 200m v2

application/octet-stream 1 kB

This is a shaded relief of the original DEM described next. This data product, now at version 2, is a blend of digital elevation model (DEM) data derived from the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA),…

Lunar M3 Water Map PDS4 Archive thumbnail

Lunar M3 Water Map PDS4 Archive

image/tiff 4 kBDec 22 2022

These water maps and their ancillary data were prepared for studying the effects of Earth's magnetotail on the formation of the lunar surface water by Dr. Shuai Li at University of Hawaii. It is…

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Rocket Flight

http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/rpif/videos/rocket-flight

The 1960s Apollo Lunar Module could support two men for three days, and the Apollo space suits carried only enough oxygen and cooling water for eight hours of work on the moon. Because of these…

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Mars MER Microscopic Imager Surface Findings

http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/geology/mars-mer-microscopic-imager-surface-findings

The Microscopic Imagers (MI) on the Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, have returned images of Mars with higher resolution than any previous camera system, allowing detailed…

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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…

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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…

Mars Ice

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

North Pole Consortium Meetings Instruments and Data Tharsis Region South Pole South Pole Cryptic Region South Pole Recession

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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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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…

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ISPRS 1999 SSI / RAC: Imagers for Mars Polar Lander

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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…

ISPRS 1999 Location and Geologic Settings for the three U. S. Mars Landers thumbnail

ISPRS 1999 Location and Geologic Settings for the three U. S. Mars Landers

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Super resolution of the horizon at both Viking landing sites has revealed “new” features we use for triangulation, similar to the approach used during the Mars Pathfinder Mission. We propose…

ISPRS 2003 The role of Synthetic Aperture Radar in Extraterrestrial Mapping thumbnail

ISPRS 2003 The role of Synthetic Aperture Radar in Extraterrestrial Mapping

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Most of the surfaces of Mercury, the Moon and Mars are covered by regolith, a large part of which has been generated by repeated hypervelocity impact resulting in the widespread redistribution of…

ISPRS 2003 Topographic Profile Diagrams of Mars: A Step Toward the Formal Proof of Martian Ocean Recession, Timing and Probability thumbnail

ISPRS 2003 Topographic Profile Diagrams of Mars: A Step Toward the Formal Proof of Martian Ocean Recession, Timing and Probability

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After the initial proposal of Contact 1 and 2, previously published papers about ocean on Mars can basically be divided in two groups. The first one was based on shorelines theory, however,…

ISPRS 2003 Surface Age Conputations for Mars: A Step Toward the Formal Proof of Martian Ocean Recession, Timing and Probability. thumbnail

ISPRS 2003 Surface Age Conputations for Mars: A Step Toward the Formal Proof of Martian Ocean Recession, Timing and Probability.

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Many indicators for ocean on Mars were proposed: outflow channels and features related to the evolution of standing bodies of water (polygons, lobate impact craters), features consistent with the…

ISPRS 2003 GIS 101 for Planetary Research thumbnail

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 Visual Calculus of Perceptual Fribble? World Maps with Constant Scale Edges: A Novel Projection Method, Well-Suited to our Era thumbnail

ISPRS 2003 Visual Calculus of Perceptual Fribble? World Maps with Constant Scale Edges: A Novel Projection Method, Well-Suited to our Era

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I introduce world maps with constant scale edges [cse], and show how cse encompasses both conventional projections and a new class of maps—world maps with constant scale natural boundaries [csnb].…

ISPRS 2003 Utilizing GIS in Martian Impact Crater Studies thumbnail

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…