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

The idea is to print the map out (in sections) and apply to a standard classroom globe like so:

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

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