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[Phil Stooke]

Having a bit of time free I have embarked on a new global photomosaic map of asteroid 25143 Itokawa. Follow its construction here as I go. I'm hoping it won't take more than 4 to 6 weeks as other duties call. The mosaic will eventually go into PDS.

This follows the work I did on a map made from rendered images derived from Bob Gaskell's shape model. That had to be the first step because the control I'm using is derived from published lat-long grids superimposed on his rendered images. Now each individual image will be reprojected to fit that map. The large local relief will make it impossible to make all seams invisible, however.

First step: the north polar area. The outer edge is at 40 N, with 90 N at the middle and 0 longitude at the top.

Phil

[Phil Stooke]

After a year-long hiatus I have returned to the Itokawa mosaic. I have finished two of the three equatorial sections, leaving the hardest part until the last - the head of our cute little otter asteroid. Hardest because the distortions will be most extreme in this area. Here is what I have so far, reduced scale and heavily compressed. The final product will eventually end up in the PDS Small Bodies Node.

Phil




PS one area here looks a bit sketchy - just under the middle of the image. It was never seen well, always on the terminator and/or near the limb. Best I can do right now.

[chuckclark]

[quote name='Phil Stooke' date='Sep 2 2011, 01:25 PM' post='178269']
After a year-long hiatus


Go Phil!