Vesta – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Sat, 18 Nov 2017 16:20:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg Vesta – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 Geologic Maps of Vesta https://www.maproomblog.com/2014/11/geologic-maps-of-vesta/ Tue, 18 Nov 2014 00:02:36 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/2014/11/geologic-maps-of-vesta/ More]]> Geologic map of Vesta
NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

Geologic maps of Vesta, the asteroid visited by the Dawn spacecraft between July 2011 and September 2012, have been produced for a special issue of the planetary science journal Icarus. Above, a global geologic map of Vesta, compiled from 15 individual quad maps and using a Mollweide projection (Vesta itself is decidedly non-spheroid, but still).

Previously: Atlas of Vesta.

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Atlas of Vesta https://www.maproomblog.com/2013/09/atlas-of-vesta/ Sun, 15 Sep 2013 16:20:18 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/2013/09/atlas-of-vesta/ Atlas of Vesta

An atlas of Vesta, comprising a series of 29 quad maps (mirror) assembling visual and relief data from the Dawn spacecraft‘s visit to the large asteroid between July 2011 and September 2012, has been released.

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