Lro quickmap software#

LROC principal investigator Mark Robinson and his team at Arizona State University has, however, recently given the world's planetary science enthusiasts another new tool.Įvery three months, with the publishing of another the newest big volume of LROC photographs to the Planetary Data System, we a handful of sites, a few of them already well-surveyed, and many not given the attention we anticipate, to see what's new. In of itself we've never expected to see anything unremarkable at that location, and there are other sites we're hoping to see that are still not in the admittedly enormous amount of LROC data already cataloged and available online.

Lro quickmap software#

LROC RDR Software Interface Specification (SIS).Among the many places on the Moon we're patiently waiting to see through the unprecedented array on-board LRO, including a high-resolution LROC Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) glance into the depths of the crater within Antoniadi now confidently believed to be the lowest point on the Moon (very near 70.38°S, 187.2☎), over 9,000 meters below global mean elevation. 42, abstract #2387).įor more information on LROC Reduced Data Records (RDRs), please refer to the In Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (Vol. Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera Morphological Map of the Moon. (2015) for a brief summary of updates made in 2014): When citing this product, use the following reference (but see also Wagner et al. *** indicates the scale in meters/pixel (M) or pixels/degree (P) ? indicates the center longitude in 1/10th degrees East # indicates the center latitude in 1/10th degrees North (N) or South (S) indicates the map projection (E=Equirectangular or P=Polar Stereographic) Each file is named with the following pattern (see table below for examples): Additionally, orthographic products are available at all resolutions showing the hemispheres centered at the equator at 0°, 60°, 120°, 180°, 240°, and 300° longitude, and the polar tiles described above are also available at all resolutions. Lower resolution products (at 64, 32, 16, 8, and 4 pixels/degree) are available in single global equirectangular tiles, centered at either 180° or 0° longitude (longitude ranges from 0° to 360° and -180° to 180°, respectively, and latitude range always from -90° to +90°). The remaining two tiles are polar stereographic projections for each pole from 60° to the pole. Eight of the tiles are equirectangular projections that encompass 60° latitude by 90° longitude (for the 128 pixels/degree products, these tiles extend from the equator to the pole).

The WAC global mosaic is archived in ten regional tiles at three different resolutions: 100 meters/pixel, 256 pixels/degree, and 128 pixels/degree. This mosaic uses only the 643 nm band of the WAC. et al, 2014, Resolved Hapke parameter maps of the Moon). To reduce brightness discrepancies across image boundaries, all images were corrected to a common photometric geometry using a Hapke model with model parameters varying across the Moon ( Sato, H. et al, 2014, Pre-flight and On-orbit Geometric Calibration of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera). Accurate positioning of each WAC image was ensured using ephemeris provided by the LOLA and GRAIL team and an improved camera geometry model ( Speyerer, E.J.

The non-polar images were map projected onto the GLD100 (WAC derived 100m/pixel DTM) while polar images were map projected on the LOLA shape model (80° to 90° N/S) and the GLD100 (60° to 80° N/S).

Some gores were filled with data taken at other times between -31 complete image lists for each tile are available under 'Supplementary Downloads'. To even out the incidence angle variations, the mosaic is comprised of data collected over three periods ( to, to, to ) (Table 1). The WAC maps the whole Moon in one month, however the solar incidence angle at the equator changes about 28° from the beginning to the end of the month. The WAC global mosaic is comprised of over 15,000 images acquired between November 2009 and February 2011.