Jules Verne Voyager: Solar System Portal

Solar System Portal Index:

Inner Solar System (terrestrial planets and their moons: Mercury to Mars)

Outer Solar System (jovian planets and their moons: Jupiter to Neptune; and Pluto)

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

Inner Solar System     Click on one of the planet or moon images below to bring up the interactive Jules Verne Voyager map tool for that world, or click on the name to bring up the corresponding Help page to see what other datasets are available for that world. Following each Voyager portal image are the primary science missions for the background 'texture underlay' imagery (see Information Sources for complete references).

Mercury
    Mariner 10, Messenger

Venus
    Magellan

Earth
    NOAA 11, SeaStar/SeaWiFS, DMSP, Terra/MODIS, etc.
PaleoEarth
    datasets compiled by Ron Blakey/NAU
                                Moon
                                    Clementine

Mars
    Mariner 9, Viking orbiter, MGS/MOLA, MGS/MOC
                                Phobos
                                    Viking, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Mars Express
                                Deimos
                                    Viking, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

Comparative Planetology     Clicking on the inner planet images below brings up Voyager directly in a "view from space" orthographic projection (our "index" map), but scaled the same for each planet for direct size comparison. For more on how to do this yourself, see below. Each Voyager map instance is fully interactive in the usual ways.

Mercury	Venus	Earth	Moon	Mars

Outer Solar System     Click on one of the planet, moon, or TNO images below to bring up the interactive Jules Verne Voyager map tool for that world, or click on the name to bring up the corresponding Help page to see what other datasets are available for that world. Following each Voyager portal image are the primary science missions for the background 'texture underlay' imagery (see Information Sources for complete references).

Outer Planets and Moons:    

Jupiter
    Voyager 2, Cassini
                                Amalthea
                                    Voyager 1 and 2, Galileo
                                Io
                                    Voyager 1 and 2, Galileo
                                Europa
                                    Voyager 1 and 2, Galileo
                                Ganymede
                                    Voyager 1 and 2, Galileo
                                Callisto
                                    Voyager 1 and 2, Galileo

Saturn
    Voyager 1 and 2, Hubble Space Telescope, Cassini
                                Janus
                                    Voyager 1 and 2, Cassini
                                Mimas
                                    Voyager 1 and 2, Cassini
                                Enceladus
                                    Voyager 1 and 2, Cassini
                                Tethys
                                    Voyager 1 and 2, Cassini
                                Dione
                                    Voyager 1 and 2, Cassini
                                Rhea
                                    Voyager 1 and 2, Cassini
                                Titan
                                    Cassini
                                Iapetus
                                    Voyager 1 and 2, Cassini
                                Phoebe
                                    Cassini

Uranus
    Voyager 2, Hubble Space Telescope
                                Ariel
                                    Voyager 2
                                Umbriel
                                    Voyager 2
                                Titania
                                    Voyager 2
                                Oberon
                                    Voyager 2
                                Miranda
                                    Voyager 2

Neptune
    Voyager 2, Hubble Space Telescope
                                Triton
                                    Voyager 2
                                Proteus
                                    Voyager 2

Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs):    

Pluto
    Hubble Space Telescope
                                Charon
                                    Hubble Space Telescope

How to do your own comparative planetology images     You can set up your own initial comparative planetology views. Above, for the Inner Solar System, the mean radii of the planets are Mercury 2439 km; Venus 6051.8 km; Earth 6378.2 km; Moon 1738 km; and Mars 3396 km. The i=1 in each URL tells Voyager to bring up the initial image as an index map, i.e. the orthographic 'view from space' projection. Using a map image width of 727 pixels (w=727) for Earth, the other widths are proportionally determined.

Note: The index map width is 80% of the selected w width (up to a set maximum — which may change — but is fairly large).

Then the desired central longitude and latitude of each projection is given. Here we used various longitudes (e=) and a latitude of 25°S (n=-25), except for Mercury which is centered on the equator (n=0). We use the default texture underlay grid (grd=1) on each, except for Earth where we use ARC Science Simulations' Face of the Earth ™ (grd=7) and also turn off plate boundaries (geo=0). The opt=131072 suppresses the regional outline selection on the index map, which would be set by default in this case to be equivalent to de=90 and dn=90. Also see Earth Exploration Toolbook: Creating Custom Map Images of Earth and Other Worlds for more details.

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