Pluto System Cartography, places and names |
Pluto System Cartography, places and names |
Jul 28 2015, 08:17 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 423 Joined: 13-November 14 From: Norway Member No.: 7310 |
BuzzFeed have gotten their hands on how the NH team plans to name features on both Pluto and Charon: http://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkasprak/the-vader-crater
The names give some clues for how the science team is interpreting things: you find things named fossa, vallis, cavus, rupes, dorsa and linea - all on Pluto. EDIT: The maps on the mission website: Pluto Sputnik plain and surroundings Charon This post has been edited by Habukaz: Dec 20 2015, 09:11 PM -------------------- |
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Sep 15 2015, 01:37 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 2 Joined: 7-March 15 Member No.: 7410 |
Bill (also see PM) / Gennady / Hendric. Thanks!
On a sidenote, here's another idea I have been toying with, you may be interested in. Nasa offers a wonderful free utility called g.projector that can take a cylindrical map and do various projections with it. http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/gprojector/ If someone takes a Pluto and/or other globe map, and did a "Sinusoidal" projection, and then in the settings selected the "30'' Gores" version of it, he ends up with a map like this: Then, one could get styrofoam balls like these: http://goo.gl/P7m015 and simply... glue the pieces on to create a globe! (Only bit that needs some attention would be to ensure that the width of the printout matches the circumference of the globe) |
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