Information Sources Index:

Overview

Map sites

Mercury

Venus

Earth    [  Moon  ]

Mars    [  Phobos   Deimos  ]

Jupiter    [  Amalthea   Io   Europa   Ganymede   Callisto  ]

Saturn    [  Janus   Mimas   Enceladus   Tethys   Dione   Rhea   Titan   Iapetus   Phoebe  ]

Uranus    [  Ariel   Umbriel   Titania   Oberon   Miranda  ]

Neptune    [  Triton   Proteus  ]

Pluto

Datasets we're specifically looking for...

Do you have data that you would like to see in Voyager?

For more information about our Voyager map tool, contact: Lou Estey
(louunavco.org)

Overview     Since the Jules Verne Voyager is based on the functionality of GMT (Generic Mapping Tools, developed and maintained by Paul Wessel and Walter H. F. Smith), data sets which are already in GMT format can be added very quickly. Some of the data sets listed here were already in a GMT format, others had to be massaged somewhat.

To date, planetary datasets and images have been obtained from these and other sources:

• ARC Science Simulations (Earth)
• International Astronomical Union (IAU)/USGS Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature
• NASA's Visible Earth (Earth)
• NASA's SeaWiFS Project (Earth)
• Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, Planetary Data System (PDS) Geosciences Node (Earth, Moon, Mars, Venus, asteroids)
• USGS's PDS MAP-A-PLANET (e.g. Mercury, Venus, Moon, Mars, Callisto, Europa, Ganymede, Io, Rhea, Dione, Tethys, Iapetus, and Enceladus)
• Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for Operations (CICLOPS) (Jupiter, Saturnian system)
• Steve Albers's Planetary Maps (Global Images) (part of NOAA's Science on a Sphere project)
• Björn Jónsson's planetary rendering site (Jónsson's own rendering texture maps for some planets and moons)
• Scientific Visualization Studio/Goddard Space Flight Center (Mars)
• JPL's Mars Global Surveyor page (Mars)

Map sites     To compare our planetary Voyager interactive maps with other mapping sites (last checked on 26 May 2010), try :

basic resources:

• basic command line GMT: GMT homepage
• GUI wrapper for GMT: Thorsten Becker's iGMT
• USGS overview of map projections, (though there is the curious lack of mention of the Plate Carrée = simple cylindrical projection)

interactive map and map creation sites:

• Jules Map Server and homepage for our Voyager interactive map tool for all the worlds in the inner and outer Solar System, including mapped moons (GMT-produced maps):
  • Mercury
  • Venus
  • Earth   (plus GSRM and EarthScope editions)   [  Moon  ]
  • Mars   [  Phobos   Deimos  ]
  • Jupiter   [  Amalthea   Io   Europa   Ganymede   Callisto  ]
  • Saturn   [  Janus   Mimas   Enceladus   Tethys   Dione   Rhea   Titan   Iapetus   Phoebe  ]
  • Uranus   [  Ariel   Umbriel   Titania   Oberon   Miranda  ]
  • Neptune   [  Triton   Proteus  ]
  • Pluto  
• National Geographic's Maps (Earth only) (Earth only)
• Penn State University Libraries' Digital Chart of the World Server (Earth only)
• Harvard University Library's Harvard Geospatial Library map tool (Earth only)
• The Earth Institute at Columbia University's In the World map tool (Earth only)
• GeoConnections Discovery Portal (formerly CEONet): "add interactive maps, locators, and coordinate entry tools to your own web site" with Earthscape (Earth only)
• University of Minnesota & others: TerraSIP's MapServer (downloadable source, based on OpenSource and freeware)
• SOPAC's SOPAC Maps (Earth, GPS/GNSS arrays)
• NOAA's Interactive Global Map of Sea Floor Topography (Earth; GMT-produced maps)
• NOAA's National Oceanographic Data Center World Ocean Database (marine environment datasets of Earth; GMT-produced maps)
• SEA-COOS Ocean Observations, Univ. of South Carolina, North Carolina Univ., Univ. of North Carolina at Wilmington (primarily Earth ocean data; GMT-produced maps;funded by NOAA)
• USGS's Marine Realms Information Bank (Earth, links to coastal and marine datasets; GMT-produced maps)
• GEOMAR (GMT-produced maps):
  • basic Online Map Creation (Earth)
  • beta Planiglobe (Earth)
  • ODSN's Plate Tectonic Reconstruction Service, paleo map creation, Advanced (paleo-Earth)
• IRIS's Seismic Monitor (Earth's current seismicity; GMT-produced maps)
• San Deigo Supercomputer Center (SDSC) Geoinformatics Lab Discover Our Earth
• Google's Google maps (Earth), Google Moon, Google Mars
• NASA (Ames Research Center) HiRISE Online Image Viewer (Mars only, for high-resolution imagery from HiRISE)
• USGS's Planetary Interactive GIS-on-the-Web Analyzable Database (PIGWAD) (Mars, Moon, Venus, Callisto, Europa, Ganymede, and Io on-line as of May 2010)
• TimeMap homepage (Earth only); temporal as well as spatial information; links to several projects using the TimeMap interface
• JPL's Galilean moons of Jupiter clickable maps (Galileo images): Io, Europa, Callisto
• Dartmouth College interactive Mars map
• Magellan Full-Resolution Mosaicked Image Data Record (F-MIDR) (Venus Magellan data only)
• Earth and Moon Viewer (interesting perspectives for the Earth and Moon)

map, 3D visualization, and image resource sites:

• Library of Congress's Geography and Map Reading Room (Earth only, plus historical maps)
• Alexandria Digital Library:
  • ADL Project home page
  • Earth sites
  • off-Earth sites
• USGS's Astrogeology Research Program: planetary images and other information
• Calvin Hamilton's Views of the Solar System (tons of well organized information for the Solar System)
• Bill Arnett's The Nine (or Eight) Planets (more tons of well organized information for the Solar System)
• Caltech/JPL's Planetary Data System Welcome to the Planets (even more tons of well organized information for the Solar System)
• NASA's DigitalTectonic Activity Map (various downloadable map images of recent — last 1 Myr — tectonic activity of Earth)
• Google Earth, Google's 3D terrain and data visualization application
• Google Sky, everything outward as seen from Earth (with Google Earth v. 4.2+)
• World Wind, NASA's 3D terrain and data visualization application
• EarthSLOT, a 3D terrain and data visualization application (Univ. of Alaska at Fairbanks, NASA, and NSF)
• David Seal's NASA - JPL Solar System Simulator (previously Maps of the Solar System, planetary maps for all major bodies of the entire Solar System)
• James Hastings-Trew's Planetary Pixel Emporium Planet Texture Maps
• Constantine Thomas's Planetary Map Hub (rendering texture maps for most of the planets)

Earth    

• Geophysics/Geology: Geophysical and geologic information obtained from:
• 1.1 km resolution Face of the Earth ™ (100 pixels/°), plus meshing DEM (derived from GTOPO30, Smith and Sandwell bathymetry v6.2, and various polar bathymetry DEMs circa 1998), from ARC Science Simulations © 1999
• GTOPO30, USGS global 30" DEM
• NASA's Visible Earth Terra/MODIS composites (see also Terra and its sensors)
• Fault traces active in the Quaternary period (Holocene and Pleistocene epochs) for the western US were kindly provided by Richard Dart (USGS)
• earthquake hypocenters from USGS's National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC), catalog for 1961-2001 kindly supplied by John Lahr (USGS); this dataset is supplimented since 2001 by using NEIC's Global Search; last week's of QED locations updated several times per hour from USGS's all earthquake list for the world (magnitude greater than 2.5)
• Harvard centroid moment tensor (CMT) solutions, which are used to show the quadrapole focal mechanisms for seismic events
• site motion vectors / crustal motion solutions (for more information about site motion vectors or crustal/plate velocity solutions, see also the UNAVCO Facility GPS Site Motion Vector/Crustal Velocity Archive):
• GPSVEL, preliminary versions 0.0, 0.1, and 0.2, and final version 1.0 solutions kindly provided by David Lavallee and Geoff Blewitt
• IGS Central Bureau for IGS solutions
• see: Prawirodirdjo and Bock, Instantaneous global plate motion model from 12 years of continuous GPS observations, J. Geophys. Res., 109, B08404, doi:10.1029/2003JB002944, 2004, for "CGPS" ITRF2000 solution; GMT file for Table 1 kindly provided by Linette Prawirodirdjo and Yehuda Bock
• see: Kreemer et al., An integrated global model of present-day plate motions and plate boundary deformation, Geophys. J. Int., 154, 8-34, 2003, for GSRM ITRF2000 solution; data file kindly provided by Corné Kreemer
• see: Sella et al., REVEL: A model for recent plate velocities from space geodesy, J. Geophys. Res., 107, B4, doi:10.1029/2000JB000033, 2002, for REVEL ITRF97 solution; file for Table 1 kindly provided by Giovanni Sella
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Institute for High Temperatures, Russian Academy of Sciences (IVTAN) central Asia solutions with respect to fixed Asian IGS sites, kindly provided by Tom Herring
• see: McClusky et al., Global Positioning System constraints on plate kinematics and dynamics in the eastern Mediterranean and Caucacus, J. Geophys. Res., 105, B3, 5695-5719, 2000, for eastern Mediterranean region solutions
• see: Kato et al., Initial results from WING, the continuous GPS network in the western Pacific area, Geophys. Res. Lett., 25, No. 3, 369-372, 1998, for the Western Pacific Integrated Network (WING) solutions
• GPS Earth Observation Network (GEONET) of the Geographical Survey Institute (GSI) of Japan; data shown are the solutions from the period 2000 May 26 - June 9 (ITRF96) differenced with the solutions from the period 2001 May 26 - June 9 (ITRF97) w/ station Niigata fixed (we will update this data in late 2001 so that the difference vectors are entirely ITRF97); Note: this is essentially the type of vector motion used in the GEONET animation of Japan horizontal crustal deformation
• see: Iwakuni et al., Crustal deformation in Thailand and tectonics of Indochina peninsula as seen from GPS observations, Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L11612, doi:10.1029/2004GL020347, 2004, for Thailand and surrounding area (ITRF2000)
• see: Yu et al., GPS observation of crustal deformation in the Taiwan-Luzon region, Geophys. Res. Lett., 26, No. 7, 923-926, 1999, for Taiwan-Luzon area (ITRF96) solutions with respect to the Eurasia plate
• USGS solutions
• Western U.S. Cordillera (WUSC) solutions
• Alaska solutions kindly provided by Jeff Freymueller
• see: Sauber et al., Relation of ongoing deformation rates to the subduction zone process in southern Alaska, Geophys. Res. Lett., 24, No. 22, 2853-2856, 1997, for Southern and Central Alaska (SCAT) solutions
• see: Sauber et al., Crustal deformation associated with glacial fluctuations in the eastern Chugach Mountains, Alaska, J. Geophys. Res., 105, B4, 8055-8077, 2000, for eastern Chugach Mountains solutions
• Oregon 1999 solutions, kindly provided by Rob McCaffrey
• Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) solutions with respect to North American plate; Tom Herring kindly rotated these into a global reference frame for us
• Eastern Basin and Range (EBAR) solutions, kindly provided by Bob Smith and Wu-Lung Chang (see also Horizontal Deformation Velocity Map of the Intermountain Region)
• New Madrid solutions, kindly provided by Seth Stein
• South America-Nazca Plate motion Project (SNAPP) solutions with respect to South American plate kindly provided by Seth Stein and Edmundo Norabuena
• Global Strain Rate Map, International Lithosphere Program (ILP) Project II-8, using data from ftp://wellspring.ess.sunysb.edu/pub/ILP_STRAIN, kindly provided by Bill Holt and Corne Kreemer (see also the UNAVCO Facility Strain Rate Models Archive page and ILP Global Strain Rate Map Project homepage)
• World Stress Map, originally an ILP project, and now a task group of International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior (IASPEI); J. Reinecker, O. Heidback, M. Tingay, P. Connolly, and B. Müller (2004): The 2004 release of the World Stress Map; using ASCII file wsm2004.csv.zip
• Digital Isochrons of the World's Ocean Floor, direct ftp to University of Sydney, Australia: ftp://ftp.es.usyd.edu.au/pub/agegrid/2008/Grids/; currently using older Version 1.5 with an GMT file age_1.5.grd, 90°N to 72°S; thanks to Dietmar Müller for technical help
• EGM96 geoid model from NASA GSFC and NIMA Joint Geopotential Model Web page, using ASCII file 3.3 MB (compressed) geoid height file
• Global Seismic Hazard Assessment Program (GSHAP) data, part of International Lithosphere Program (ILP) until GSHAP project was terminated in 1999
• Earth Impact Database, from Planetary and Space Science Centre at the University of New Brunswick, Dept. of Geology; names, locations, sizes, and ages of 174 impact sites (as of 12 Dec 2007)
• suspected or possible oceanic impact sites (sample references): Bedout, Eltanin, Ewing
• Terrestrial Impact Crater Structures, from Views of the Solar System
• we're not sure of the exact source of the coarse tectonic plate boundaries GMT file which floats around with the NUVEL-1A model, but these boundaries might have originated with the NUVEL-1A paper by DeMets et al. [1994] (see iGMT manual); if anyone knows the exact origin of the file, please contact us
• detailed tectonic plate boundaries from U. Texas, organized by type (i.e. trench, ridge, transform), GMT format
• Peter Bird's PB2002 tectonic plate boundary model
• Large Igneous Provinces (LIPS), GMT format outlines from U. Texas
• terrestrial "hotspots" (hotspots.gmt GMT file) from U. Texas
• Smithsonian Institution's Global Volcanism Program for Earth volcano positions and names
• courses of major rivers are supplied with GMT, assessed with pscoast
• overview of major tectonic plates, USGS



• Man-made features: Countries, cities, and so on:
• DMSP true color imagery of Earth at night, showing artificial lighting from population centers and reflection of starlight
• country names and territorial claims from the CIA - The World Factbook 2002 - Appendix F
• city locations, populations, and names from ESRI's ArcWorld data set provided in ArcView 3.0 (redistribution permitted)
• country boundaries are supplied with GMT, assessed with pscoast



• Biosphere and Land Reflectance: information obtained from:
• SeaWiFS Project homepage, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center and ORBIMAGE, seasonal Level-3 Standard Mapped Images (see also OceanColor Products)



• GPS/GNSS monuments: Locations where high-precision GPS/GNSS data have been or are being collected were obtained from:
• UNAVCO Facility Archive both campaign and permenant stations (sites in GMT format)
• UNAVCO Facility Archive permanent stations (sites in GMT format)
• Bay Area Regional Deformation (BARD) GPS Network (sites in GMT format)
• Crustal Dynamics Data Information System (CDDIS) NASA GPS sites (sites in GMT format)
• International GNSS Service (IGS) Central Bureau (sites in GMT format)
• NASA and JPL's Global GPS Network (GGN), major subset of the IGS sites (sites in GMT format)
• NASA's Solid Earth Natural Hazards (SENH) GPS monuments (sites in GMT format)
• Continuously Operating Reference Station (CORS) network NOAA's National Geodetic Survey CORS array (sites in GMT format)
• Pacific Northwest Geodetic Array (PANGA), Central Washington University (sites in GMT format)
• Pacific Northwest Geodetic Array (PANGA), University of Washington (sites in GMT format)
• Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) (sites in GMT format)
• Scripps Orbit and Permanent Array Center (SOPAC) (sites in GMT format)
• Western Canada Deformation Array (WCDA) (sites in GMT format)



• MET stations: Locations where atmospheric MET data have been or are being collected were obtained from:
• Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS), NOAA (sites in GMT format)

Moon    

• Geophysics/Geology: Geophysical and geologic information obtained from:
• The greytone image of the surface was obtained from David Seal's Solar System Simulator, specifically: the 12 MB JPEG created from Clementine data (note: now only available by request).
• Topography and gravity maps from Clementine data were obtained from models available at Clementime Gravity and Topography Data at Planetary Data System Geosciences Node, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri (models at ftp://pds-geosciences.wustl.edu/geodata/clem1-gravity-topo-v1) produced by NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, MIT, and John Hopkins University from Clementine data, 1° and 0.25°.
• IAU Gazetteer



• Missions:
• See Planetary Missions for more information sources on USSR Luna; USA Ranger, Surveyor, Apollo, Lunar Prospector, and other missions.

Mercury    

• Geophysics/Geology: Geophysical and geologic information obtained from:
• The current default image is a composite from the Messenger M1 - M3 flybys (14 Jan 2008, 6 Oct 2008, 29 Sep 2009), filling in with the earlier Mariner 10 flybys (29 Mar 1974, 21 Sep 1974, 16 Mar 1975), obtained from the USGS's PDS MAP-A-PLANET site, specifically Map-a-Planet: Explore Mercury.
• The early general image of the surface from Mariner 10 flyby coverage was obtained from Mark Robinson's Mercury Mariner 10 Image Project, specifically: the 10.1 MB TIFF shaded relief map USGS I-1149, 1979, created by USGS Flagstaff from Mariner 10 data (see also Mariner 10 Mercury Shaded Relief Map)
• IAU Gazetteer

Venus    

• Geophysics/Geology: Geophysical and geologic information obtained from:
• The Magellan synthetic aperture radar composite image of the surface was obtained from JPL, specifically: the 39.3 MB TIFF created by JPL/Caltech from Magellan data. (The grey-tone image was crafted locally from this.)
• The Magellan GxDR topography and surface-property images (MIT, 1 Apr 1993) are derived from the sinusoidal maps available at Magellan Global Topography, Emissivity, Reflectivity, and Slope Data Record (GXDR) at Planetary Data System Geosciences Node, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
• Topography and gravity maps from Magellan data were obtained from models available at Magellan Spherical Harmonics, Topography, and Gravity Data at Planetary Data System Geosciences Node, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri (models at ftp://pds-geosciences.wustl.edu/geodata/mgn-v-rss-5-gravity-l2-v1) produced by JPL and Washington University from Magellan data.
• IAU Gazetteer



• Atmospheric: Image obtained from:
• The Galileo composite from the Feb 1990 flyby was obtained from Björn Jónsson's planetary rendering site, specifically: 59 KB JPEG.



• Missions:
• See Planetary Missions for more information sources on USSR Venera and Vega; USA Pioneer Venus missions.

Mars    

• Geophysics/Geology: Geophysical and geologic information obtained from:
• The Viking image of the surface was obtained from David Seal's Solar System Simulator, specifically: the 26 MB JPG (red), 21 MB JPG (green), and 17 MB JPG (blue) created by JPL/Caltech and the USGS from Viking data (note: now only available by request).
• The MGS/MOLA (Mars Global Surveyor/Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter) topography, planetary radius, and areoid use data available at Mars Global Surveyor: MOLA at Planetary Data System Geosciences Node, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri (see Mars Global Surveyor: MOLA MEGDRs)
• The MGS/MOC (Mars Global Surveyor/Mars Orbiter Camera) (red band) mosaic is is available at Malin Space Science Systems's MGS MOC Wide Angle Map of Mars (see Geodesy Campaign Mosaic).
• The MGS/MOLA (Mars Global Surveyor/Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter) gravity and crustal thickness images were obtained from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Scientific Visualization Studio page for MOLA results, originally at http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/imagewall/MOLA/high_res_flat_grav.tif (16.8 MB TIFF) (color gravity scale) and http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/imagewall/MOLA/high_res_flat_moho.tif (16.8 MB TIFF) (color moho/crustal thickness scale).
• The Viking Orbiter and Mariner 9 images use 1° models available at Viking Orbiter and Mariner 9 Occultation, Gravity and Topography Data at Planetary Data System Geosciences Node, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri (model data)
• IAU Gazetteer



• Missions:
• See Planetary Missions for more information sources on USSR Mars; USA Viking, Mars Pathfinder, Mars Polar Lander, Deep Space 2, Beagle 2, the Mars Exploration Rover (Spirit and Opportunity), and Phoenix missions.

Phobos    

• Geophysics/Geology: Geophysical and geologic information obtained from:
• The greytone image of the surface was obtained from David Seal's Solar System Simulator, specifically: the 0.9 MB TIFF created from Viking data.
• The radius map image was obtained from Calvin Hamilton's Topographic Map of Phobos, by A. Tayfun Oner, based on shape model of Phil Stooke.
• IAU Gazetteer

Deimos    

• Geophysics/Geology: Geophysical and geologic information obtained from:
• The greytone image of the surface was obtained from David Seal's Solar System Simulator, specifically: the 0.7 MB TIFF created from Viking data.
• The radius map image was obtained from Calvin Hamilton's Topographic Map of Deimos, by A. Tayfun Oner, based on shape model of Phil Stooke.
• IAU Gazetteer

Jupiter    

• Atmospheric: Image obtained from:
• The default Cassini composite image of the upper atmosphere is from the JPL Photojournal page PIA07782 (originally obtained PIA07782.tif, a 19.4 MB TIFF).
• Another Cassini composite was obtained from Björn Jónsson's planetary rendering site, specifically: 0.8 MB JPEG.
• The Voyager 2 composite was obtained from Björn Jónsson's planetary rendering site, specifically: 0.3 MB JPEG.

Amalthea    

• Surface map: dataset(s) obtained from:
• The Voyager and Galileo composite image of the surface was obtained from Wm. Robert Johnston's Planetary maps; based on a shaded relief map by Phil Stooke, colorized by Johnston to approximate those in the Voyager images.
• IAU Gazetteer

Io    

• Geophysics/Geology: Geophysical and geologic information obtained from:
• The USGS Galileo and Voyager color and greytone composite images of the surface were obtained from the USGS PDS MAP-A-PLANET: Explore Io tool.
• Steve Albers's Galileo and Voyager composite image of the surface was obtained from Steve Albers's Planetary Maps (Global Images) (part of NOAA's Science on a Sphere project).
• The Voyager 2 color composite image of the surface was obtained from Björn Jónsson's planetary rendering site, specifically: 0.4 MB JPEG.
• IAU Gazetteer

Europa    

• Geophysics/Geology: Geophysical and geologic information obtained from:
• One Galileo and Voyager color composite image of the surface was obtained from Steve Albers's Planetary Maps (Global Images) (part of NOAA's Science on a Sphere project);
• The other Galileo and Voyager color composite image of the surface was obtained from Björn Jónsson's planetary rendering site, specifically: 0.2 MB JPEG.
• The Galileo greytone composite images of the surface was made available by the USGS/Flagstaff to Robert Pappalardo (CU Boulder), 0.5 and 1.0 km/pixel resolutions; the higher resolution image is nominally equivalent to what is now available on the USGS PDS MAP-A-PLANET: Explore Europa tool.
• IAU Gazetteer

Ganymede    

• Geophysics/Geology: Geophysical and geologic information obtained from:
• The color and greytone Galileo and Voyager composite images of the surface are from from the USGS PDS MAP-A-PLANET: Explore Ganymede tool, 1.0-4.0 km/pixel resolution.
• The Galileo and Voyager greytone composite images of the surface was made available by the USGS/Flagstaff to Robert Pappalardo (CU Boulder), 1.0-4.0 km/pixel resolution for the Galileo composite and 0.4-0.9 km/pixel resolution for the Voyager composite.
• The Galileo plus Voyager color composite images of the surface was obtained from Björn Jónsson's planetary rendering site, specifically: 0.4 MB JPEG, ~9 km/pixel resolution.
• IAU Gazetteer

Callisto    

• Geophysics/Geology: Geophysical and geologic information obtained from:
• The Galileo greytone composite images of the surface was made available by the USGS/Flagstaff to Robert Pappalardo (CU Boulder), 1.0 and 4.0 km/pixel resolutions; the higher resolution image is nominally equivalent to what is now available on the USGS PDS MAP-A-PLANET: Explore Callisto tool.
• The Voyager 2 color composite image of the surface was obtained from Björn Jónsson's planetary rendering site, specifically: 0.4 MB JPEG, ~8.5 km/pixel resolution.
• IAU Gazetteer

Saturn    

• Atmospheric: Image obtained from:
• The Cassini and Voyager composite image of the atmosphere was obtained from Björn Jónsson's planetary rendering site, specifically: 1 MB JPEG.
• The Voyager 1 and 2 composite image of the atmosphere was obtained from Jónsson's earlier 2002 texture map (no longer available on Jónsson's planetary rendering site).

Janus    

• Surface map: dataset(s) obtained from:
• The Voyager and Cassini composite image of the surface was obtained from Wm. Robert Johnston's Planetary maps; essentially the shaded relief map by A. Tayfun Oner, cleaned by Johnston.

Mimas    

• Geophysics/Geology: Geophysical and geologic information obtained from:
• The Cassini and Voyager composite image of the surface was obtained from Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for Operations (CICLOPS) ~0.43 km/pixel resolution at the equator.
• Another Cassini and Voyager composite image of the surface was obtained from Steve Albers's Planetary Maps (Global Images) (part of NOAA's Science on a Sphere project).
• IAU Gazetteer

Enceladus    

• Geophysics/Geology: Geophysical and geologic information obtained from:
• The false color Cassini composite image is from Steve Albers's Planetary Maps (Global Images) (part of NOAA's Science on a Sphere project), ~0.2 km/pixel resolution at the equator.
• The greytone Cassini composite image of the surface was obtained from Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for Operations (CICLOPS) ~0.1 km/pixel resolution at the equator.
• Another Cassini plust Voyager composite image of the surface was obtained from Björn Jónsson's planetary rendering site, specifically: 0.1 MB JPEG, ~0.9 km/pixel resolution at the equator.
• IAU Gazetteer

Tethys    

• Geophysics/Geology: Geophysical and geologic information obtained from:
• The latest Cassini composite image of the surface was obtained from Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for Operations (CICLOPS) ~0.3 km/pixel resolution at the equator.
• One Cassini and Voyager composite image of the surface was obtained from Steve Albers's Planetary Maps (Global Images) (part of NOAA's Science on a Sphere project).
• The other Cassini and Voyager composite image of the surface was obtained from Björn Jónsson's planetary rendering site, specifically: 0.1 MB JPEG.
• IAU Gazetteer

Dione    

• Geophysics/Geology: Geophysical and geologic information obtained from:
• The Cassini and Voyager composite image of the surface was obtained from Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for Operations (CICLOPS) ~0.6 km/pixel resolution at the equator.
• Another Cassini and Voyager composite image of the surface was obtained from Steve Albers's Planetary Maps (Global Images) (part of NOAA's Science on a Sphere project).
• Another Cassini and Voyager composite image of the surface was obtained from Björn Jónsson's planetary rendering site, specifically: 0.1 MB JPEG.
• IAU Gazetteer

Rhea    

• Geophysics/Geology: Geophysical and geologic information obtained from:
• The Cassini and Voyager composite image of the surface was obtained from Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for Operations (CICLOPS) ~0.4 km/pixel resolution at the equator.
• Another Cassini and Voyager composite image of the surface was obtained from Steve Albers's Planetary Maps (Global Images) (part of NOAA's Science on a Sphere project).
• The Cassini albedo and color composite of the surface was obtained from Björn Jónsson's planetary rendering site, specifically: 0.2 MB JPG. Note that the region above 60°N is mostly fictional.
• IAU Gazetteer

Titan    

• Atmospheric: Image obtained from:
• The Cassini-based texture map image of the atmosphere was obtained from Fridger Schrempp's Titan texture maps (9.6 MB zip).

• Geophysics/Geology: Geophysical and geologic information obtained from:
• The Cassini/ISS composite image of the surface was obtained from Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for Operations (CICLOPS), ~4 km/pixel resolution at the equator.
• Another Cassini/ISS composite images of the surface was obtained from Steve Albers's Planetary Maps (Global Images) (part of NOAA's Science on a Sphere project).
• The Cassini/Radar swath map, up through flyby T50, overlain on a Cassini/ISS composite is from Titan RADAR SAR Swaths by Jason Perry, Lunary and Planetary Laboratory.
• A colorized surface texture map and a specular map, based on Cassini/ISS composites, were obtained from Fridger Schrempp's Titan texture maps (9.6 MB zip).
• IAU Gazetteer


• Missions:
• See Planetary Missions for more information sources on NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens probe mission.

Iapetus    

• Geophysics/Geology: Geophysical and geologic information obtained from:
• The (primarily greytone) Cassini and Voyager composite image of the surface was obtained from Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for Operations (CICLOPS) ~0.8 km/pixel resolution at the equator.
• The near-true color Cassini and Voyager composite image of the surface was obtained from Steve Albers's Planetary Maps (Global Images) (part of NOAA's Science on a Sphere project).
• IAU Gazetteer

Phoebe    

• Geophysics/Geology: Geophysical and geologic information obtained from:
• The Cassini composite image of the surface was obtained from Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for Operations (CICLOPS) ~0.23 km/pixel resolution at the equator.
• IAU Gazetteer

Uranus    

• Atmospheric map: dataset(s) obtained from:
• Uranus's atmospheric composite was obtained from James Hastings-Trew's rendering site, specifically: 9 KB JPG — based on the Jan 1986 Voyager 2 flyby and later Hubble Space Telescope images, with contrast enhancement to show variation of color from equator to poles.

Ariel    

• Surface map: dataset(s) obtained from:
• The Voyager 2 composite image of the surface was obtained from Steve Albers's Planetary Maps (Global Images) (part of NOAA's Science on a Sphere project); original dataset from the USGS and JPL, reprocessed additions by Ted Stryk.
• IAU Gazetteer

Umbriel    

• Surface map: dataset(s) obtained from:
• The Voyager 2 composite image of the surface was obtained from a link on Steve Albers's Planetary Maps (Global Images) (part of NOAA's Science on a Sphere project); produced by Phil Stooke.
• IAU Gazetteer

Titania    

• Surface map: dataset(s) obtained from:
• The Voyager 2 composite image of the surface was obtained from Steve Albers's Planetary Maps (Global Images) (part of NOAA's Science on a Sphere project); original dataset from the USGS, reprocessed by Ted Stryk.
• IAU Gazetteer

Oberon    

• Surface map: dataset(s) obtained from:
• The Voyager 2 composite image of the surface was obtained from Steve Albers's Planetary Maps (Global Images) (part of NOAA's Science on a Sphere project); original dataset from the USGS, reprocessed by Ted Stryk.
• IAU Gazetteer

Miranda    

• Surface map: dataset(s) obtained from:
• The Voyager 2 composite image of the surface was obtained from Wm. Robert Johnston's Planetary maps; original dataset from the USGS, colorized by Johnston to approximate those in Voyager 2 images.
• IAU Gazetteer

Neptune    

• Atmospheric map: dataset(s) obtained from:
• The August 1989 Voyager 2 flyby composite of Neptune's atmosphere was obtained from Björn Jónsson's planetary rendering site, specifically: 32 KB JPG. This composite includes cloned data above ~50°N (the region of Neptune not visible to Voyager 2).
• The fictional atmosphere was obtained from JPL's Solar System Simulator, image credit to Don Davis.

Triton    

• Surface map: dataset(s) obtained from:
• The Voyager 2 composite image of the surface was obtained from Steve Albers's Planetary Maps (Global Images) (part of NOAA's Science on a Sphere project); original dataset from JPL, reprocessed by Wm. Robert Johnston and A. Tayfun Oner, intensity adjusted by Albers.
• IAU Gazetteer

Proteus    

• Surface map: dataset(s) obtained from:
• The Voyager 2 composite image of the surface and the topographic map was obtained from Calvin J. Hamilton's Views of the Solar System; shaded relief map by Phil Stooke, and topographic map by A. Tayfun Oner based on a shape model by Phil Stooke.

Pluto    

• Surface map: dataset(s) obtained from:
• The Hubble Space Telescope/Advanced Camera for Surveys 2002-2003 composite image of the surface was obtained from BBC News and HubbleSite, release STScI-2010-06, image credit to Marc Buie (Lowell Observatory), NASA, and the Space Telescope Science Institute.
• The Hubble Space Telescope/Faint Object Camera 1994 composite image of the surface was obtained from HubbleSite, release STScI-1996-09 and HubbleSite, release STScI-2010-06, image credit to Alan Stern (Southwest Research Institute), Marc Buie (Lowell Observatory), NASA and ESA.

Datasets we're specifically looking for...    

• GPS/GNSS velocity solutions of monuments in ITRF96 (or later) global reference frame
• global digital fault dataset for Earth
• high resolution digital grid data or images of any planetary body; we can probably handle up to 256 to 300 pixels/°
• digital lon/lat outlines of non-circular features on planetary bodies

Do you have data that you would like to see in Voyager?     If you know of a public-domain data set which may be of general interest, feel free to contact us. Likewise, if you have a data set (even if proprietary) and would like to see it included in Voyager, please let us know; for example, we can make special arrangements to keep your data set safe and only allow users access via the GIF images displayed on users' browsers via Voyager, or even restrict access to certain data sets to specific IP addresses.

The data formats which are the most easily included in Voyager are:

• files already formatted for GMT
• point or line data in ASCII or binary format
• RGB/RAW, TIFF, PNG, GIF, or JPEG evenly-spaced lon/lat file showing some characteristic of all or some portion of a world (preference is RGB/RAW or TIFF format first, PNG or GIF second, JPEG last)
• binary or ASCII grid data of some single-valued function of longitude and latitude (e.g. DEM, gravity, geoid, seismic velocities, etc.), evenly spaced in lon/lat is best

• paths of famous explorations (e.g. Magellan, Cook, etc.)
• locations of hominid finds (with age of find, name of species/sub-species, etc.)
• whatever

Eventually, we hope to be able to set an ftp procedure where users can ftp data files to our site, for inclusion on Voyager imaging of Earth or other worlds, but with access limited to specific IP addresses, basically allowing only you and your colleagues to look at your own data with Voyager without necessarily contacting us.

Comments, questions, problems about Jules Verne Voyager? Send mail to Lou Estey
(louunavco.org)