Radar And Mariner 10, Best possible mapping, pre-Messenger |
Radar And Mariner 10, Best possible mapping, pre-Messenger |
Apr 28 2005, 06:21 PM
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Dec 9 2006, 05:58 PM
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This map is a composite of the USGS shaded relief and various radar images. The poles are reprojected from published images of the polar ice patches. The equatorial parts of the side not seen by Mariner 10 are from the new Icarus paper, but here these images have been specially processed to reduce the effects of the strong north-south ambiguity in all these images. That was not done in the new paper. Areas not covered may still be reprocessed in this way, but I'm not sure how well they can be done.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PDF: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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