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| <p>[[File:Farside-Mosclabel.jpg|Farside-Mosclabel.jpg]]<br /> | | <p>[[File:Farside-Mosclabel.jpg|Farside-Mosclabel.jpg]]<br /> |
| <em>image from [http://www.cmf.nrl.navy.mil/clementine/albedo.html USGS Clementine mosaic,] annotated by C.A. Wood</em></p> | | <em>image from [http://www.cmf.nrl.navy.mil/clementine/albedo.html USGS Clementine mosaic,] annotated by C.A. Wood</em></p> |
− | <p>I get lost on the farside. I know the surfaces of Mars, Venus and Titan better than our own Moon’s averted hemisphere. Part of the reason is that there are very few maps of the farside - I would love to have the farside equivalent of the [http://www.lpod.org/?m=20060416 <i>S&T Field Map of the Moon</i>], which I use every day. But there is probably not a big enough market to justify any company creating one, so I am making my own. The image above is a orientation map of the NE quadrant of the farside. I started with the US Geological Survey <i>Albedo Map of the Moon</i> (which they worked hard to display accurately the differences in brightness) and distorted it to so that both light and dark areas showed maximum detail. And then I added the names of a few craters and maria to provide some orientation. The Clementine mosaic has too high of lighting to show decently most craters so it will probably not be a basis for a map with all craters identified. Of course, it has already been the basis of the [[May_17,_2004|<i>Clementine Atlas of the Moon</i>]] but that has a large enough scale - and accompanying shaded relief drawings - to make it possible to identify the craters. There are actually three other maps of the farside that include crater names. The revised National Geographic <i>The Earth’s Moon</i>, the USGS’ <i>Color-Coded Topography and Shaded Relief Map of the Lunar Near Side and Far Side Hemispheres</i>, and Rükl’s small hemispheric map on p 191 of his <i>Atlas of the Moon</i>. Perhaps when all the images from SMART-1 are mosaicked together an image map of the farside will be constructed and annotated with names - in the meantime I’ll make the other three farside quadrants.</p> | + | <p>I get lost on the farside. I know the surfaces of Mars, Venus and Titan better than our own Moon’s averted hemisphere. Part of the reason is that there are very few maps of the farside - I would love to have the farside equivalent of the [[April_16,_2006|<i>S&T Field Map of the Moon</i>]], which I use every day. But there is probably not a big enough market to justify any company creating one, so I am making my own. The image above is a orientation map of the NE quadrant of the farside. I started with the US Geological Survey <i>Albedo Map of the Moon</i> (which they worked hard to display accurately the differences in brightness) and distorted it to so that both light and dark areas showed maximum detail. And then I added the names of a few craters and maria to provide some orientation. The Clementine mosaic has too high of lighting to show decently most craters so it will probably not be a basis for a map with all craters identified. Of course, it has already been the basis of the [[May_17,_2004|<i>Clementine Atlas of the Moon</i>]] but that has a large enough scale - and accompanying shaded relief drawings - to make it possible to identify the craters. There are actually three other maps of the farside that include crater names. The revised National Geographic <i>The Earth’s Moon</i>, the USGS’ <i>Color-Coded Topography and Shaded Relief Map of the Lunar Near Side and Far Side Hemispheres</i>, and Rükl’s small hemispheric map on p 191 of his <i>Atlas of the Moon</i>. Perhaps when all the images from SMART-1 are mosaicked together an image map of the farside will be constructed and annotated with names - in the meantime I’ll make the other three farside quadrants.</p> |
| <p>[mailto:tychocrater@yahoo.com Chuck Wood]</p> | | <p>[mailto:tychocrater@yahoo.com Chuck Wood]</p> |
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| <p><b>Yesterday's LPOD:</b> [[September 4, 2006|Another Schiller]] </p> | | <p><b>Yesterday's LPOD:</b> [[September 4, 2006|Another Schiller]] </p> |
| <p><b>Tomorrow's LPOD:</b> [[September 6, 2006|Banging Into the Moon]] </p> | | <p><b>Tomorrow's LPOD:</b> [[September 6, 2006|Banging Into the Moon]] </p> |
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