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
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