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Lunar and Mercurian topography

Tony Cook (National Air and Space Museum, Washington DC)

Semi-automated digital stereo matching techniques have been applied to Mariner 10 vidicon images of Mercury and Clementine UVVIS images of the Moon. Digital elevation models (1km/pixel) have been generated for regions on both planets including the lunar polar regions (90S-60S & 60N-90N), the lunar Mare Orientale impact basin, Mercury's south pole, and examples of Mercurian lobate scarps. Simulated limb profiles of the Moon's north and south poles during the eclipse, as seen from Alderney will be presented.

Example planetary digital elevation models are available on the web site: http://www.nasm.edu/ceps/research/cook/topo.html

Maintained by Ian Howarth