Dione Feature Names |
Dione Feature Names |
Mar 18 2008, 12:02 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3233 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/jsp/Feat...t&show=Orig
A host of new feature names have been approved for use on Dione. For example, the large impact basin on Dione shall hence forth be known as Evander. Here is it mappified (map by Steve Albers). I think I got all the ones that got changed from the original proposal, but let me know if you see any mistakes. -------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
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Mar 18 2008, 12:28 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Thanks, VP!
Silly question: What are the precise distinctions made between chasma, dorsa, and fossae? I know that the USGS has a site somewhere for this, but haven't been able to locate it. -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Mar 18 2008, 12:36 AM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10154 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Dorsum (pl. dorsa) - a ridge
Fossa (pl. fossae) - a valley (trough, graben) Chasma (pl. chasmata) - a canyon or very large rift, like the individual components of Valles Marineris on Mars. Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Mar 18 2008, 12:46 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Thanks, Phil. I seem to have a perspective reversal problem with dorsa... ...been a long time since I went to the optometrist.
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Mar 18 2008, 03:01 AM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
The Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature is what you're looking for. Specifically, the Descriptor Terms page.
Thanks for the tip, VP! Scrolling down the home page I saw a list of news and followed the link to More News and discovered that the USGS has an RSS feed for new names and name changes! Awesome. --Emily -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Mar 18 2008, 08:56 AM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Have to admit I'm a real sucker for new maps like this. Something about a map with names on makes a place seem more, well, real to me, you know? It means "we've been here, we've studied this place, and gave names to what we found and saw because we're coming back one day...". Quite moving, in a starry-eyed, unashamed romantic, yer great soft nit kind of way...
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Mar 20 2008, 08:01 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 241 Joined: 16-May 06 From: Geneva, Switzerland Member No.: 773 |
Really Great, thanks a lot Jason. I was waiting for these names since a long time.
I really like maps of solar system bodies, and Steve Albers maps are really fantastic. And with names, it's even better. A lot of new names to learn and an occasion to study in closer detail the Aeneid. I just would have called the big basin Virgil (as well as I think Homer deserves to have his name somewhere on Tethys). Marc. |
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Mar 29 2008, 05:33 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1630 Joined: 5-March 05 From: Boulder, CO Member No.: 184 |
So - it's Evander that I've been hammering on recently to try and show its periphery
Nice labelifying - VP! -------------------- Steve [ my home page and planetary maps page ]
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May 29 2008, 09:45 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 610 Joined: 23-February 07 From: Occasionally in Columbia, MD Member No.: 1764 |
Have to admit I'm a real sucker for new maps like this. Something about a map with names on makes a place seem more, well, real to me, you know? It means "we've been here, we've studied this place, and gave names to what we found and saw because we're coming back one day...". Quite moving, in a starry-eyed, unashamed romantic, yer great soft nit kind of way... You might want to read Oliver Morton's 'Mapping Mars' that describes that very process/effect over the years for that world. |
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May 29 2008, 09:58 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 94 Joined: 22-May 08 From: Loughborough Member No.: 4121 |
Is it coincidence that Evander looks like an ear that's had a bit chewed off it
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May 29 2008, 10:19 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
You might want to read Oliver Morton's 'Mapping Mars' that describes that very process/effect over the years for that world. Thanks for the recommendation Ralph, but that's one of my favourite books already. It's helped inspire several of my poems. -------------------- |
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May 30 2008, 04:37 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 809 Joined: 11-March 04 Member No.: 56 |
Thanks, Phil. I seem to have a perspective reversal problem with dorsa... A dorsum is literally a "back", the side of a human or other vertebrate along which the spine runs. Hence the biological term "dorsal" as opposed to "ventral" -- spine-side as opposed to stomach-side, e.g. used of a shark's "dorsal fin". Already in Latin the term was used for the ridge of a hill, just as in English we speak of a "hogback" of land. |
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