As you may have guessed, my interest in planetary maps has peaked again, and I think it's time to update all my Voyager-sourced maps. The question is, should I buy the latest USGS maps of Io, Callisto, Ganymede, Europa etc. or are new maps coming anytime soon?
Jeffrey
Why buy maps while they are all public available for personal use?
For example: http://laps.fsl.noaa.gov/albers/sos/sos.html
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Because buying maps is cheaper than printing them out.
Excellent news!
And another reply to the first in this thread:
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"Why buy maps while they are all public available for personal use?
For example: http://laps.fsl.noaa.gov/albers/sos/sos.html"
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The printed maps are a lot more than the plain images Steve Albers has produced. No offence, Steve, they are excellent image maps and they appear in a very timely fashion, and the projection is ideal for the computer rendering business. But the printed map from USGS contains more information, including feature names, a labelled grid, and a considerable amount of information about how it was made, the data sources, the map projection, and so on. Many users will prefer the map projection used for the printed map, which doesn't distort the poles as a Simple Cylindrical projection does. Besides which, as any cartophile will tell you, a hard copy map is a beautiful artifact which you just gotta have! A digital map is a tool, you can do things with it. But a paper map is a work of art. (drool!)
Phil
Paul, was that the book supposed to be available March 2008 ?
ISBN-13: 978-0521868358
Greetings,
Here's an update on the feature map of Io I posted in another thread. Among other things more features are now being shown:
Thank you very much for posting these maps. I am especially happy for this one of Io, also the one of Mercury you posted in another thread..
TheAnt you're most welcome. Here's what I have at this point for Europa, with features larger than 40km. This is improved over the one I posted in the Image Processing thread. The feature labels are now rotated and offset for the Linea and such. Europa needed this more than any other planet/satellite as you might imagine.
New Names for three Sulci and one Regio on Ganymede :
Melotte Regio: 201.1° W to 290.5 W and 22.06 N to 42.8 S.
Babylon Sulci: 61° W to 130 W and 12 N to 55 S.
Borsippa Sulcus: 304° W to 73 W and 18 S to 77 S.
Mummu Sulci: 160° W to 222 W and 13 S to 65 S.
http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/HotTopics/index.php?/archives/495-New-Names-for-Three-Sulci-and-One-Regio-on-Ganymede.html
Pleased to see that things are going on, even if there is no current mission in the Jovian system.
Regards,
Marc.
Largest Solar System Moon Detailed in Geologic Map :
http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/news/ganymede20140212/index.html#.Uvv4QkpvASw
"A group of scientists led by Geoffrey Collins of Wheaton College has produced the first global geologic map of Ganymede, Jupiter’s seventh moon. The map combines the best images obtained during flybys conducted by NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft (1979) and Galileo orbiter (1995 to 2003) and is now published by the U. S. Geological Survey as a global map. It technically illustrates the varied geologic character of Ganymede’s surface and is the first global, geologic map of this icy, outer-planet moon."
Best regards,
Marc.
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