The new LOLA maps are more… posted to Astronomy | Blogs and a Book About Maps of the Solar System’s Moons Oh look: two blogs about mapping other bodies in the solar system by planetary scientist Paul Schenk: Dr. The site,… posted to Astronomy | ‘Unprecedented’ Topo Maps of the Moon Data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter’s Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) is leading to “the most precise and complete map to date of the moon’s complex, heavily cratered landscape,” NASA said last week.
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During a space weather event, sat nav… posted to Astronomy, GPS, Surveying | Michael Zeiler’s Solar Eclipse Map Website Michael Zeiler, GIS professional by day, eclipse mapper by night - last April I blogged about his map of solar eclipses from 2010 to 2050 - is back with a whole website dedicated to solar eclipse maps. That sounds like a very good way to peruse all that new imagery from the MESSENGER spacecraft, now orbiting the planet, in… posted to Astronomy, Google Earth | Solar Flares and Surveying Accuracy The Ordnance Survey Blog explains why “space weather” - such as the coronal mass ejection the Sun let loose this week - is bad news for mapmaking: solar flares disrupt navigation satellite accuracy.
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posted to Astronomy | Uncle Rod Looks at Cartes du Ciel “Uncle” Rod Mollise takes a close look at free star chart software Cartes du Ciel, “a classic of astronomy software, and thanks to the selfless and tireless efforts of its author it’s still as up-to-date and as wonderful as ever.”… posted to Astronomy, Software | Google Mercury Well, not quite - but you can view Mercury imagery in Google Earth by downloading a KML file. Lutetia is only 130 km across along the major axis, but it was visited by the Rosetta probe last year. The new version, however, charts clouds of hydrogen in a swath between 10 billion and… posted to Astronomy | Lutetia’s Features Named Even asteroids get place names: 36 features on the asteroid Lutetia have been assigned names. “Previous versions plotted the locations of galaxies within 7 billion light-years of Earth. posted to Astronomy | Mapping the Early/Distant Universe Wired Science on astronomers’ efforts to map the distant (and young) universe. Astronomy The 50,000 Nearest Galaxies Yesterday’s APOD was a map of the 50,000 nearest galaxies in infrared light, based on data collected by the Two Micron All-Sky Survey (io9)….
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