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A question asked in the professional Lunar-List has yielded a valuable series of responses about access to data from recent lunar missions. | A question asked in the professional Lunar-List has yielded a valuable series of responses about access to data from recent lunar missions. | ||
| − | To make it easy to find these data sets I've added a [https://the-moon.us/wiki/ | + | To make it easy to find these data sets I've added a [https://the-moon.us/wiki/Lunar_Image_Data page] to the Moon-Wiki that is slowly bringing together all of this information. Knowing |
where to find data is unfortunately only the beginning to using it. Nearly all of these repositories use file formats that are difficult to display | where to find data is unfortunately only the beginning to using it. Nearly all of these repositories use file formats that are difficult to display | ||
and are not easy to translate into amateur-friendly jpegs. But LPOD has many users - including professional lunar scientists and really skilled | and are not easy to translate into amateur-friendly jpegs. But LPOD has many users - including professional lunar scientists and really skilled | ||
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<strong>Related Links</strong><br /> | <strong>Related Links</strong><br /> | ||
| − | Rükl plate [https://the-moon.us/wiki/R%C3% | + | Rükl plate [https://the-moon.us/wiki/R%C3%BCkl_54 54]<br /> |
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<p><b>Yesterday's LPOD:</b> [[August 17, 2012|Yes, the Moon is Here]] </p> | <p><b>Yesterday's LPOD:</b> [[August 17, 2012|Yes, the Moon is Here]] </p> | ||
Latest revision as of 18:43, 13 October 2018
Data
3 thumbnail images of Hesiodus A concentric crater from the Kaguya Terrain Camera, and one thumbnail of a simultaneous or oblique impact crater Barbier K from Chang’E
A question asked in the professional Lunar-List has yielded a valuable series of responses about access to data from recent lunar missions.
To make it easy to find these data sets I've added a page to the Moon-Wiki that is slowly bringing together all of this information. Knowing
where to find data is unfortunately only the beginning to using it. Nearly all of these repositories use file formats that are difficult to display
and are not easy to translate into amateur-friendly jpegs. But LPOD has many users - including professional lunar scientists and really skilled
amateurs - who I encourage to write short tutorials on how to select and display lunar images from these data sets. One of the great impedi
ments to more widespread use of space data is that the formats used in the official Planetary Data System require a postdoc to figure out.
A really remarkable example of how to make data access easy is the QuickMap interface for LRO images (and altimetry) and the M3 images
from Indian Chandrayan-1 orbiter. The Arizona State University team also uses a similar interface for all of the historic Apollo images they are
digitizing. The Internet has spawned a culture of let information be free. I would add for lunar data, free and accessible by a normal person.
Chuck Wood
Related Links
Rükl plate 54
Yesterday's LPOD: Yes, the Moon is Here
Tomorrow's LPOD: Small Mystery
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