Here's a good map for contemplating tiger stripes in relation to the rest of the moon's surface (15˚ graticles).
A http://rightbasicbuilding.com/2016/01/13/enceladus-gets-another-custom-projection/
Very nice--Thank you
An LPSC poster is now up, over here:
http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2016/eposter/2520.pdf
describing how this projection was conceived, and showing three additional aspects (rotated cut lines).
That is very cool! Nat. Geo should just crib the whole thing and stick on one of their maps.
Really nice work, thank you.
I've posted a high-resolution version of the above map (second row in the poster) over here:
http://rightbasicbuilding.com/2016/03/16/enceladus-b-large-file/
But be sure to read the post. I'm having trouble getting it to load on-screen at full size.
You'll probably have to right-click and select download linked file.
Wish I knew how to fix that problem. Suggestions?
EDIT: Please let me know if you download it successfully.
If unable, send me a message via this forum and we'll figure out a way to FTP the file.
Hey Chuckles! I didn't have any problem downloading the image straight into my browser and then saving it.
See you in Houston!
Phil
zero issue seeing it full size
just clicked on the image on that page in Seamonkey
then for a "fit to screen size" i just right click in Seamonkey and select that , or left click the screen when i see the "minus" sign
Here's the same projection, but focused on the opposite pole. And with the 0–180 meridian across the middle, left to right.
The trailing hemisphere is the top half and the leading hemisphere is the bottom half.
What I'm wondering is: is there any usefulness to this view? Seems to me that if the incredibly active south pole shows up so distinctly in the first map (above, this thread), and the tiger stripes and the ring around them are due to tidal flexing, we'd see something similar happening at the north pole, where the tidal flexing stresses are presumably no different.
But we don't, right?
(A quick edit: this map is not exactly the same as the first one: the map boundary is slightly altered to reduce maximum shape distortion.)
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