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Pluto System Cartography, places and names
JohnVV
post Apr 26 2016, 10:29 PM
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repost from a different forum
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this is a VERY enhanced and cleaned up map
with the missing data filed in with the data from "Marc Buie , et al" map i created years ago
based on "PIA19956" and "PIA19858"

2k lores ( 0 to 360 !!! )


16k zip
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6ZYAd08tZ...iew?usp=sharing
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alan
post Feb 23 2017, 07:14 PM
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NASA’s New Horizons, IAU Set Pluto Naming Themes
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post Sep 7 2017, 04:12 PM
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Finally, Pluto features got their first official names by the IAU.
No big surprises, but it's good to be official.

https://www.iau.org/news/pressreleases/detail/iau1704/

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post Jan 3 2018, 08:01 PM
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Pluto in Google Maps is quite nice: http://google.com/maps/space/pluto


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post Apr 11 2018, 06:00 PM
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Charon IAU Nomenclature
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-A...p?page=20180411

Interestingly modern fictional characters have made a toehold.
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post Jun 20 2020, 12:56 AM
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I made this map of Charon by combining the 12K USGS map with a map that was made from the Lowell Observatory back in 2000. I then overlaid color from the color IAU map and extrapolated color from one of the mid latitude grey areas into the southern hemisphere. I avoided using the color for the Mordor Regio (no official name yet for the giant north polar macula) or any other particularly dark area since the Lowell map shows the southern hemisphere to be brighter. It is interesting how well the albedo areas on the Lowell map roughly line up with the NH map.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/4998312...bd2b8db9a_o.png



This will likely be the highest coverage map of Charon until either something else flys by or a more powerful Earth based telescope images it.


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post Jul 5 2020, 01:03 PM
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16K Map of Pluto made by combining USGS map with additional areas from a map from NASA and using maps from Hubble to fill in most of the rest then a map from Lowell observatory to fill in that tiny south pole area. Color from the NASA map was overlain with extrapolation from mid latitudes for the southern hemisphere.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/60012030@N02/50079014212/
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post Nov 23 2020, 11:39 PM
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I recently got a new computer. With it, I have constructed the highest resolution color map of Pluto. I had to divide it into 4 sections because Flickr wouldn't accept the 24K beast as one or even two pieces. The map can be seen in this album.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/60012030@N02/...157717015414428


https://www.flickr.com/photos/60012030@N02/...157717015414428


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post Nov 24 2020, 01:01 AM
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Spectacular. Great work!


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post Dec 3 2020, 12:50 AM
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QUOTE (Antdoghalo @ Nov 24 2020, 12:39 AM) *
I recently got a new computer. With it, I have constructed the highest resolution color map of Pluto. I had to divide it into 4 sections because Flickr wouldn't accept the 24K beast as one or even two pieces. The map can be seen in this album.


Nice map Antdoghalo!

Flickr allows images up to 200MB but size in pixels should not be limited so as long it's JPEG with such compression that it's smaller than 200MB, it should be fine.
My largest image on Flickr has size 24 000 × 20 300.


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post Feb 4 2022, 07:40 PM
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I don't know if I'm posting this in the right topic...

Reading Alan Stern's December 17, 2021 post "The PI's Perspective: Looking Back, Looking Forward" on the New Horizons website - http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/PI-Per...tive_12_17_2021 - I noticed this excerpt:

For this update, I also want to mention to you that a number of Pluto system and Arrokoth surfaces features have received official names that our project team proposed (...) They also include the first surface feature named on Pluto’s moon Nix, and an official name, “Sky,” for Arrokoth’s largest crater.

However, I can not find maps, pictures or even some sketches with these new names on Arrokoth and Nix, or any further information on this matter anywhere.
Can anyone help me please?
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post Feb 4 2022, 08:45 PM
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QUOTE (Marcin600 @ Feb 4 2022, 11:40 AM) *
However, I can not find maps, pictures or even some sketches with these new names on Arrokoth and Nix, or any further information on this matter anywhere.
Can anyone help me please?

Presumably they just haven't updated https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/ yet -- the last update was in early December 2021.


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QUOTE (mcaplinger @ Feb 4 2022, 09:45 PM) *
Presumably they just haven't updated https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/ yet -- the last update was in early December 2021.

Thank you.
In fact, there is probably some delay (e.g. there are also no maps/pictures with names on the surfaces of Bennu and Ryugu on the IAU website).
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post Feb 15 2022, 12:53 AM
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And here it is!!!
Thank you!

http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-A...p?page=20220210

(Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Southwest Research Institute)
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