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Anyone know where i can find maps of any of these objects

Antdoghalo View Member Profile	Dec 28 2009, 03:17 AM Post #1
Member Group: Members Posts: 246 Joined: 13-October 09 From: Olympus Mons Member No.: 4972	Im looking for a map of every well imaged object in the solar system. Well imaged as in seeing surface variations or better. Im still looking for maps of these objects Idas moon Dactyl asteroid Annefrank comet Tuttle asteroid Juno Jupiters moon Metis Saturns moon Pan Saturns moon Atlas Saturns moon Pandora Saturns moon Calypso Uranian moon Puck Neptunes moon Larissa asteroid Geographos asteroid Davida asteroid Golevka asteroid JM8 asteroid TU24 asteroid NY40 asteroid KY26 asteroid Eugenia asteroid Braille Neptunes moon Nereid Asteroid Lutetia Does anyone have a map or knows where a map is of anyone these objects surface. If you know where one is please include the site on your post And the map has to be cylindrical projection -------------------- "Thats no moon... IT'S A TRAP!"

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Phil Stooke

Jan 11 2010, 05:01 PM

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OK, so here I unveil the first cylindrical projection map of Comet Borrelly - as far as I know, anyway. It's not very good.

First the data source - this image shows a grid superimposed over a visualization of the nucleus. It's from work by Randy Kirk and colleagues at USGS Flagstaff and was shown at LPSC last year. Note that there is no useful published shape model of Borrelly and this must be derived from unpublished work. Those guys are brilliant but the data are very poor so the shape model will be of limited reliability.

I have modified the grid to remove (to fudge over) grid artifacts created where the surface cuts radii more than once (i.e. the surface cannot be represented as a unique set of lat-long-radius points... think of an overhanging cliff on Earth). Here's my version:

Then that underlying image is projected into Simple Cylindrical map space. Because of the extreme irregularity of shape and the fudge factor where the surface 'overhangs', the ends of the nucleus (where most of the interesting topography is found) are compressed and distorted. Future work may allow that to be improved, but I don't have time for it yet.

'north' is chosen arbitrarily.

Phil

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... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.

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Antdoghalo View Member Profile	Feb 21 2010, 05:17 PM Post #3
Member Group: Members Posts: 246 Joined: 13-October 09 From: Olympus Mons Member No.: 4972	--- Full quote removed! --- Thanks for the map It actually turned out better than i expected. -------------------- "Thats no moon... IT'S A TRAP!"

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Antdoghalo Anyone know where i can find maps of any of these objects Dec 28 2009, 03:17 AM

Exploitcorporations If you're looking for global cylindrical maps,... Dec 28 2009, 08:36 AM

tedstryk I can definitely provide these: asteroid Annefrank... Dec 28 2009, 05:10 PM

Antdoghalo QUOTE (tedstryk @ Dec 28 2009, 12:10 PM) ... Jan 2 2010, 06:41 PM

Phil Stooke I recently made a cylindrical map of Borrelly base... Jan 2 2010, 08:29 PM

Phil Stooke Here's the Stardust map of Wild-2. The gridde... Jan 4 2010, 02:03 PM

Antdoghalo Full Inline Quote Removed. Admin Thanks for the m... Jan 10 2010, 11:02 PM

Phil Stooke For Steins see my note in the Steins thread. You ... Jan 11 2010, 12:05 AM

Phil Stooke OK, so here I unveil the first cylindrical project... Jan 11 2010, 05:01 PM

Antdoghalo --- Full quote removed! --- Thanks for the ma... Feb 21 2010, 05:17 PM

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