What's New ... Jules Verne Voyager, interactive map tool for the Web

26 May 2008 Mars now has the landing site of Phoenix lander — the first successful powered descent soft-landing mission to Mars since the 1976 Viking landers.

2 Jan 2008 Titan now the updated landing site of ESA Cassini-Huygens probe as an option.

19 Sept 2007 The parser to obtain (nominally) the last week's worth of magnitude 2.5 or larger seismic events on Earth and EarthScope using the [Recent earthquakes] option from the USGS's latest earthquake activity (for past 7 days) had to be updated to match HTML changes on that page. (Apparently, this will be an ongoing problem over time...) The Voyager dataset is still updated every 10 minutes, starting 2 minutes after the hour.

21 Sept 2006 The location of the ESA SMART-1 de-orbit impact site was added to the Moon.

6 Apr 2006 The Cassini image dataset for Jupiter was updated to the newly released composite from the Cassini Imaging Team (Ciclops) available at NASA Planetary Photojournal Catalog Page for PIA07782. This improves the resolution from the previous 0.2° to 0.1°

2 Feb 2006 The external link to obtain (nominally) the last week's worth of magnitude 2.5 or larger seismic events on Earth and EarthScope using the [Recent earthquakes] option was changed to a new earthquake activity PHP URL at the USGS. The Voyager dataset is still updated every 10 minutes, starting 2 minutes after the hour.

23 Dec 2005 The [URL:] menu option [VSS] — Views of the Solar System — now goes to the appropriate English page at LASCO in Germany.

2 July 2005 Voyager versions of Saturn and its major moons: Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Rhea, Titan, and Iapetus, made possible by composite images supplied by Steve Alber (NOAA).

3 Mar 2005 The computational nodes for the jules system have been upgraded to two machines with dual-processor 64-bit 1.6 GHz AMD Opterons, which should allow for faster image creation especially with multiple users. Please let us know if you encounter any difficulties.

6 Jan 2005 Earth and EarthScope: now have a [Large Holocene eruptions] option which will show the sites of large-volume Holocene volcanic eruptions listed on Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program Large Holocene Eruptions page; the dataset has 227 volcanoes. Also, there is a [label eruption dates] option which shows the date(s) of these large eruptions for each volcano; the dataset currently has 572 dates. Note: the eruption date labels only show up on zoomed-in local maps, and some volcanoes have as many as 19 dates listed. You may have to zoom in quite a bit in order to separate the eruption dates of different volcanoes from one another.

4 Jan 2005 Earth and EarthScope: have been updated with the current list of volcanoes and sites of volcanic activity listed at the Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program. The dataset being displayed has 1553 sites of Holocene activity.

3 Jan 2005 Earth and EarthScope: now have a [Recent earthquakes] option which will show (nominally) the last week's worth of magnitude 2.5 or larger seismic events as reported on the USGS earthquake activity list. The Voyager dataset is updated every 10 minutes, starting 2 minutes after the hour.

27 Dec 2004 Earth and EarthScope: have been updated with events listed in the NEIC earthquake catalog through to the Sumatran magnitude 9.0 event on 26 Dec 2004. The dataset being displayed is now over 532000 events starting in 1961.

22 Dec 2004 Earth and EarthScope: have been updated with Harvard CMT catalog focal mechanism solutions through to the current query (on 22 Dec 2004).

21 Dec 2004 Earth and ILP_GSRM: have both been updated with the 2004 World Stress Map.

9 Nov 2004 The SeaWiFS biosphere and land reflectance seasonal images from the SeaWiFS Project have been updated through to Apr/May/Jun 2004.

29 Sept 2004 Earth and EarthScope now have mapped fault traces known or determined to have been active in the Holocene and Pleistocene Epochs (Quaternary Period) (though the datasets currently only cover the western USA).

18 May 2004 Earth has been updated to the 12 May 2004 version of the University of New Brunswick's Earth Impact Database (171 impact sites), plus 3 additional impact sites from the ILP Project III-7 Global Impact Studies Project (Azuara in Spain, Highbury and Sinamwenda in Zimbabwe), plus 3 possible oceanic impact sites (Eltanin, Ewing, and Bedout).

7 May 2004 Earth and ILP_GSRM: have both been updated with Global Strain Rate Map version 1.2 released by SUNY Stony Brook, by Bill Holt and Corné Kreemer. See ILP GSRM homepage (click on the Earth portal image) for more information.

24 Feb 2004 Earth, and the special Voyager editions ILP_GSRM and EarthScope, now have the option of showing the plate boundaries of Peter Bird's PB2002.

13 Feb 2004 Mars now has the landing sites of MER-A (Spirit) and MER-B (Opportunity), as well as the center of planned landing ellipse for Beagle 2.

30 Oct 2003 Earth GPSVEL GPS motion vector set has been updated to version 1.0, which now includes 264 solutions for the western US cordillera, thanks to Rick Bennett and David Lavallee. See also: GPSVEL Products for more information.

18 July 2003 The SeaWiFS biosphere and land reflectance seasonal images from the SeaWiFS Project have been updated through to Apr/May/Jun 2003.

17 July 2003 A new Image Gallery document that gives you an idea of what types of map images you can easily produce yourself with Voyager, plus a minor refresh of the look of the jules homepage and the new embossed Monsieur Verne background on all the document pages.

1 July 2003 Voyager versions of Jupiter and its galilean moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto, made possible by composite images supplied by USGS/Flagstaff and Robert Pappalardo (CU Boulder).

19 Jun 2003 Earth and ILP_GSRM: have both been updated with Global Strain Rate Map version 1.1 released by SUNY Stony Brook, by Bill Holt and Corné Kreemer. See ILP GSRM homepage (click on the Earth portal image) for more information.

17 Apr 2003 Earth has been updated with a EGM96 free air gravity model (0.5° resolution).

2 Apr 2003 Earth and ILP_GSRM: have both been updated with the 2003 World Stress Map.

22 Feb 2003 EarthScope: a special Voyager edition for the EarthScope project (see also Welcome to EarthScope!), showing the locations of existing and proposed PBO, USArray, and SAFOD ground instrumentation sites.

Comments, questions, problems about Jules Verne Voyager? Send mail to Lou Estey
(lou

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