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[mhoward]

Up close, the story is a little more complex. But still not bad, I'd say, considering. The real photo is again Stu's, this time his Eddington Crater shot from yesterday. Thanks to Stu for letting me use these.

[ilbasso]

I say that you should never let reality interfere with the enjoyment of a really good simulation.

[JohnVV]

if anybody is interested i am remapping the clementine map to the new Kaguya elevation data

there is a bit of a mismatch ( mostly at the north pole )
at 333 m/p there is about a 20 to 80 pixel offset .This i am hopping to fix

[Stu]

Thanks to Mike for sending me some 'Moon Globe' pics of Eddington crater, which I've used in a post on my blog. When it's in next week's "Carnival of Space" I hope it brings some more downloaders your way, Mike!

http://cumbriansky.wordpress.com/2009/12/0...ddington-crater

And thanks to everyone else here who took the time and trouble to send me Eddington views, too. I've more than enough to tell its story in the Outreach talks I have left this year.

[scalbers]

I think the point of an "Earth Globe" app would be to look at Earth as a planet -- with topographic shading, and maybe with overlays of volcano names, impact crater locations, etc. It would be cool if there were a map you could use color coded for the age of the crust. The key question would be what kind of global databases are out there for such physical geography -- Earth science is quite Balkanized compared to planetary science!

Emily, have you looked at the NGDC and SOS sites?

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/ocean_age/dat...ns_noplates.jpg

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/ocean_age/ocean_age_2008.html

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/global/global.html

ftp://public.sos.noaa.gov/land/etopo1/8192.jpg

http://sos.noaa.gov/datasets/Land/

Steve

[mhoward]

I'm collecting ideas for version 1.2 of Moon Globe - any little things that people might want added, changed, or tweaked. I probably won't be seriously working on it for a while, but thought I'd throw it out there, so you can throw it back at me if you like.

On another topic, Moon Globe passed 100,000 downloads yesterday.

[ilbasso]

My favorite feature for sheer coolness is to flip the date wheel and watch the Moon undulate through librations, perigee and apogee, and phases at accelerated speed!

[elakdawalla]

Yes, I have to say that's my favorite feature too.

Mike, honestly the only thing I've ever wanted to do with Mars Globe or Moon Globe that I can't do at present is to quickly go to a particular date. (Date and time, actually, but once you're at the date it is super easy to use the slider to get the time you want; it's navigating to a date beyond a few weeks in the past that's a hassle.)

[mhoward]

A menu option to jump to a particular date (and maybe time) is a good idea. Thanks for reminding me! (I keep forgetting that one.)