Mars Map with Feature Names |
Mars Map with Feature Names |
Feb 25 2012, 07:10 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1669 Joined: 5-March 05 From: Boulder, CO Member No.: 184 |
Greetings,
Thought I'd post my latest version of a Mars feature map. Compared with an earlier one I posted in a different thread, this one has improvements in fonts, as well as the removal of obsolete feature names in favor of newer ones. Full Resolution: http://laps.noaa.gov/albers/sos/features/c..._180_center.jpg The mosaic map is a combination of Viking imagery with (judiciously applied) MOLA shaded relief, from the Science On A Sphere Data Catalogue. Steve -------------------- Steve [ my home page and planetary maps page ]
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Feb 25 2012, 07:33 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8785 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Nice! Thanks for sharing it.
Kind of a shame in a way that so many of the classical albedo feature names are now obsolete; some of those might have been useful to retain as descriptors for large regions of the planet, plus they had a certain historical flavor. Ah, well...time marches on. -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Feb 25 2012, 08:02 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3431 Joined: 11-August 04 From: USA Member No.: 98 |
Ah, well...time marches on. Actually many if not most of those names are still around. IIRC, the single most common description of Mars feature names in the USGS list is "named for classical albedo feature", or words to that effect. And it's good too, because they're fantastic names. |
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Feb 26 2012, 01:09 AM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10231 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Quite right! And astronomers looking at albedo markings in telescopic images still use the older names, perfectly legitimately. The 30 map quadrangles for mars are named ater albedo features, and as you say, many features other than craters take their names from older names for albedo features and nearby 'canals'.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PDF: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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