foldable map of Itokawa, a cook's tour of the sausage factory Options

[chuckclark]

Not that I mean to compare Itokawa to a sausage, just to show you behind the scenes of making the map, along with the map itself, here, rather than continue to clog up the Hayabusa Return to Earth thread.
Here is the map itself, so far along as the pasting in of the mosaic has gone.
And here is are two shots of the folded up map, compared with the computer-made model. Note the arrow to one of the "ears." The first try of the map failed to capture the ear, so I replotted the boundary, as seen in the Tracing image.
All photos credit: Sara Adkins Studio

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[chuckclark]

Okay, ran out of file space on that post. Here are the Tracing and the Ear Failure images.
The tracing is taken full-size on acetate directly off the plastic model. The folded map is reduced half size.

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