Die Nasa hat eine wunderbare, riesige, topografische Karte vom Mond veröffentlicht. Hier gibt’s das Teil von vorne und hinten und zum Reinzoomen. Und wo wir grade beim Thema sind: Wired hat eine tolle Galerie mit Vulkan-Karten.
The science team that oversees the imaging system on board NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has released the highest resolution near-global topographic map of the moon ever created.
This new topographic map, from Arizona State University in Tempe, shows the surface shape and features over nearly the entire moon with a pixel scale close to 100 meters (328 feet). A single measure of elevation (one pixel) is about the size of two football fields placed side-by-side.
NASA: RO Camera Team Releases High Resolution Global Topographic Map of Moon (via Laughing Squid)
The Awl: A Survey Of Moon Maps Since the 17th Century: „How do you map something 238,856 miles away? You can’t just send out a team of surveyors. At least, you couldn’t until relatively recently. Before then, lunar cartographers (technically, selenographers) could only rely on telescopes and their own artistic ability to draw a detailed portrait of the lunar face. They managed some pretty dazzling results.“
