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Interrupted sinusoidal maps |
 Feb 13 2012, 05:29 PM
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Newbie  Group: Members Posts: 4 Joined: 26-September 11 Member No.: 6180  |
Anyone know of interrupted sinusoidal projections of mars or other planets (or the moon)?
The question comes out of a "wouldn't it be cool if" conversation with a teacher looking at some old globes and wondering if they could be turned into moon or Mars globes.  interrupted sinusoidal projection |
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Feb 13 2012, 05:35 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 4 Joined: 26-September 11 Member No.: 6180 |
The idea is to print the map out (in sections) and apply to a standard classroom globe like so:
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Feb 13 2012, 06:19 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 4522 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Technically they are interrupted projections, but we usually just call them gores, or globe gores. Try out a few here:
http://www.nso.edu/staff/dooling/solar_sys...ornaments3.html or here: http://www.vendian.org/mncharity/dir3/planet_globes/ Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Feb 14 2012, 07:31 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 399 Joined: 18-November 08 Member No.: 4489 |
the USGS has a few BUT they are in polar projection and in PDF
http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/products/Plan...Maps-and-Globes the perl script on the second link from phil looks good http://www.vendian.org/mncharity/dir3/plan...ke_gores_pl.txt |
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