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Mapping Utopia (2)

Radu Capitan — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 19:41:41 +0000

Utopia Planitia Mapping in ArcGIS 10

Landforms on crater walls in eastern Utopia Planitia, Mars

Radu Capitan — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:20:27 +0000

Four types of landforms on crater walls in eastern Utopia: (a) temporary chennels resembling gullies, (b) head-cut gullies, (c) debris flow morphologies and (d) dry flow morphologies

Relief map of Utopia Planitia Mars

Radu Capitan — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:18:21 +0000

The image show an exaple of how elevation data can show information about depositional structures on one of the yougest Martian terrains. The superimposed blue limits are traced using the planetary geologic techniques. On background there is a relief map of the region extracted from MOLA data. The new morphologic limits refine the previous interpretation that was based on planetary geologic mapping techniques, e.g., the Vastitats Borealis structure that cover most of the area (in centre and upper part of the image) can be divided into distinct morphologic areas. Note also the impact crater and volcanic morphologies that stand out clearly in the relief map. Elysium Mons structure and volcanic flows are located in the lower rigth part of the image. The image covers a quadrangle that extends from 0 to 89 degrees North in latitude and from 0 to 180 degrees East in the Utopia Planitia and Elysium regions.

New insights into Martian mapping

Radu Capitan — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:35:17 +0000

A full description of the new method of mapping was presented to the PSERF meeting at UWO Canada. Here there is the content in .pdf: click here.