LMMP – Lunar Mapping and Modeling Portal

Lunar Mapping and Modeling Portal

Portal UI Version 1.2.0.17 rc 1 Public Site
Need Flash Player 10x

Overall : 
OS : Windows XP, Windows 7, Linux, Solaris 9.x, MacOS 10.x
Memory : 1G RAM
Flash Player : 10.x
Internet Browser : Firefox 3.x, Chrome 6.x, Safari 4.x 5.x, IE 7.x
Graphics : 24bit, 1024 x 768

Portal UI : 
Flash Player enabled Internet Browser

LunarMapper : 
Javascript enabled Internet Browser

ILIADS:
Java Virtual Machine 1.6

The BROWSE tab will open the view of the Moon where you can do searches.

The HELP tab will take you to the LMMP Wiki

General Navigation

Click and Drag the Map to PAN around. Double-Click a point to ZOOM into that location by 1 Zoom Level. If your mouse has a wheel, scrolling up and down on the wheel will adjust the zoom level as well. Your last ZOOM option is to use the slider in the upper left of the portal.

The TOOL tab will take you to a page where you can down load the Java application where you can then do work on your own computer.  It will need to be connected to the Internet to down load images from different missions when needed to complete a view.

See the information on ILIADS
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Integrated Lunar Information Architecture for Decision Support (ILIADS) is a lunar GIS that executes on a user-provided laptop or desk side computer. ILIADS supports 3D visualizations of the lunar surface, a suite of quantitative analysis tools, and analysis functions that can be invoked by user-developed scripts.

You will need to download the ILIADS software from the Portal TOOLS tab. Click on the .exe file that downloads to extract the software from the downloaded file. You will need Administrative privileges to successfully install the software.

Use the quick start guide (ILIADS_Quick_Start_Guide.pdf) to lead you through a hands-on overview of ILIADS capabilities. An ILIADS movie is also available (Iliads_LMMP_Demo.mov) to provide a demonstration of capabilities. There is also a preliminary user’s guide available (ILIADS_Release1_UsersGuide.pdf). This user’s guide will be updated for the next release of ILIADS.

ILIADS_Quick_Start_Guide.pdf (1.3 MB) Admin, LMMP, 03/25/2011 03:34 PM EDT

Iliads_LMMP_Demo.mov (221.1 MB) Admin, LMMP, 03/28/2011 12:50 PM EDT

ILIADS_Release1_Public_UsersGuide.pdf (10.5 MB) Admin, LMMP, 04/14/2011 03:37 PM EDT

Also available in: HTML TXT
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MOON ZOO

MOON ZOO

Welcome to Moon Zoo

Welcome to Moon Zoo — with your help, we hope to study the lunar surface in unprecedented detail. Thanks to the help of the Moon Zoo community we have already visually classified 2,092,402 images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). Read more about the LRO and Moon Zoo or learn how to take part.

Looks like an interesting web site that goes along with mapping the Moon and understanding what is there.  LRK

The MOON ZOO FORUM which I will have to look into.  LRK

• Moon Zoo »
• Moon Zoo Forum »
• The Objects »
• Image of the Week »
• 9th May 2011 One Year On The Moon

This week, Moon Zoo celebrates its first year since launch back in May 2010.

Lunar Atlas

Virtual Moon Atlas

Free software for Moon observation or survey

2009 : INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF ASTRONOMY
AND… NEW VMA “PRO” VERSION 5.1 

WITH : NEW EPURED AND DOUBLE WINDOWED INTERFACE
POSSIBLE FULL SCREEN DISPLAY
DYNAMIC SHADOWS ON TERMINATOR USED WITH PHASES DISPLAY
COORDINATES GRID SYSTEM WITH SETUP
POSSIBLE LUNAR POLES FLYBY
2 NEW VERY HIGH RESOLUTION TEXTURES
14 NEW COLOR SCIENTIFIC OVERLAYS
THIRD SCIENTIFIC DATABASE ABOUT LUNAR DOMES
MORE THAN 3000 NEW PICTURES FROM CONSOLIDATED LUNAR ATLAS
MORE THAN 150 NEW PICTURES FROM JAPANESE PROBE KAGUYA
POCKETLUN VERSION NOW FREELY DOWNLOADABLE

CONSOLIDATED LUNAR ATLAS

CONSOLIDATED LUNAR ATLAS Foreword, Paul Spudis Preface, Eric Douglass Credits The Consolidated Lunar Atlas (CLA) can be accessed in the following ways: Part I, low-oblique photography Part II, full-moon photography List of plates, tabular List of plates, positional Thumbnails of entire collection Original CLA Booklet

LUNAR ATLAS

Lunar Geology is made up of two major categories: Geochemistry (which is concerned with the sources, migrations, and current resting places of individual chemical elements), and Geophysics (which studies the densities, temperatures, and depths of boundaries of a planet’s crust, mantle, and core, as well as the physical properties of near-surface rocks such as magnetism and thermal conductivity).

Lunar Atlas Contains hundreds of named features of the Moon.

Phases of the Moon elucidates the often difficult to understand phases of the moon. We have created here an interactive visual tool that will help explain the complex and dynamic lunar cycle.

Lunar Eclipse Learn about the effects of a lunar eclipse on Lunar Prospector

Further Reading Expand your knowledge of the content provided here through related websites.
http://lunar.arc.nasa.gov/science/

SELENOGRAPHIA

Selenographia is the last of the three works which make up Inconstant Moon, the others being the original guided tours and the Cyclopedia Selenica reference zone.

Inconstant Moon has been generously allowed to use the magnificent photographs of the Consolidated Lunar Atlas, and has used these to build a set of 44 mosaic images which continuously cover the entire visible face of the Moon at a uniform scale.

It provides switchable overlays of feature names and lines of latitude and longitude, an intuitive system for panning across the lunar surface, a clickable gazetteer of named features and selectable orientation to match any configuration of lenses and mirrors from either hemisphere.

In addition, there are some fifty large-scale maps showing other aspects of the Moon such as nomenclature, geology, exploration and folklore figures.

NASA Invites Public to Journey Toward Interstellar Space

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/voyager/voyager20110426.html
NASA Invites Public to Journey Toward Interstellar Space

NASA will hold a special NASA Science Update at 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT) on Thursday, April 28, to discuss the unprecedented journey of NASA’s twin Voyager spacecraft to the edge of our solar system.

The event will be held at NASA Headquarters in Washington and will be broadcast live on NASA Television and streamed at http://www.nasa.gov . In addition, the event will be carried live on Ustream, with a live chat box available, at http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2 .

After 33 years in space, the spacecraft are still operating and returning data from about 16 billion kilometers (10 billion miles) away from our sun. The Voyagers also carry a collection of images and sounds from Earth as a message to possible life elsewhere in the galaxy.

The participants are:
– Ed Stone, Voyager project scientist and professor of physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif.
– Ann Druyan, creative director, Voyager Interstellar Message Project; Carl Sagan’s co-author and widow
– Suzanne Dodd, Voyager project manager, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
– Merav Opher, Voyager guest investigator and assistant professor of astronomy, Boston University

For more information about the Voyager mission, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/voyager .

For NASA TV streaming video and downlink information, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv .

Lunar and Planetary Institute

Lunar and Planetary Institute

About Us

The Lunar and Planetary Institute is a research institute that provides support services to NASA and the planetary science community, and conducts planetary science research under the leadership of staff scientists, visiting researchers, and postdoctoral fellows.

Education and Public Outreach

Lunar Science and Exploration

Center for Lunar Science and Exploration
The Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) and the Johnson Space Center (JSC) have a long and successful history of collaborative research and exploration activities that began with the Apollo program.  The LPI and JSC have harnessed that heritage to build the new Center for Lunar Science and Exploration to better support our nation’s new lunar science and exploration activities.

Just had to collect some of the LPI links on one page for quick reference.
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Geologic Atlas of the Moon

Geologic Atlas of the Moon
Publisher:	U. S. Geological Survey
Scale:	1:5,000, 1:10,000, 1:25,000, 1:50,000, 1:100,000, 1:250,000
Projection:	Mercator and Lambert Conformal

Many maps of different regions of the Moon can be found on this index page.

As an example, I have been reading “To a Rocky Moon – A Geologist’s History of Lunar Exploration by Don E. Wilhems, and on page 131 he mentions a map of the Hevelius region that was completed in 1967.  The footnote led me to the Selected Bibliography which gave “1967b Geologic map of the Hevelius region of the Moon. USGS I-491.”  

I found it listed in the section for a Scale: 1:1,000,000 and clicked on the image which gave me the link I-491 Hevelius 

There are several file sizes given for down loadable images.  The largest file size are for images saved in JPEG 2000 format which requires a viewer.

I found several sources for viewers listed on the HiRISE & JPEG2000 support page.

I didn’t have a viewer so picked one that I thought might work on Windows 7.
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ExpressView: A JPEG2000 (JP2) viewer application freely available from LizardTech, a Celartem Technology Inc. Company. Available for Mac OS X and Windows platforms.
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I see that it will work in IE and Mozilla Firefox but in Google Chrome I got a flash for trying to open a Quick Time viewer and just a blank stream.  Chrome does know it is a JPEG2000 image so will leave now for further investigation.

Having mentioned HiRise – High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment – “Explore Mars One Giant Image At A Time” best leave that link too.

http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/index.php

Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3)

EDUCATION AND PUBLIC OUTREACH

Overview

Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M³) is one of eleven instruments onboard India’s Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft . M3 is a state-of-the-art imaging spectrometer that will provide the first map of the entire lunar surface at high spatial and spectral resolution.  Once completed, this map will reveal the minerals of which the Moon is made and provide clues to the geologic history and evolution of the terrestrial planets, Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars.

A dynamic education and outreach program is underway to help share the exciting results of the Chandrayaan-1 and M3mission. The M3 Education and Public Outreach (E/PO) activities focus on three themes: 1) Geology of the Earth-Moon system, 2) Properties of Lunar Materials and, 3) Science & Technology of Lunar Resources

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Take a look at all the links on the RESOURCE page.
http://m3.cofc.edu/resources.html