Planetary Cartography and Graphics by Ralph Aeschliman
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Description: Planetary maps and graphics of Mars, the Moon and Venus.
Ralph Aeschliman Planetary Cartography and Graphics Ralph Aeschliman Planetary Cartography and Graphics Welcome to Ralph Aeschliman's Planetary Cartography and Graphics web site! Anticipating the favorable Mars opposition of 1986 I used U.S. Geological Survey maps as source material to craft a small globe of Mars. While doing so I developed great respect for the work of the airbrush cartographers who made the maps. In 1990 I began work as an airbrush cartographer with the USGS Astrogeology group in Flagstaff, Arizona. During my eleven years at the USGS use of the airbrush gave way to computer graphic techniques. My work included making maps of Mars, the `Irregular Satellites' of the solar system, mapping and developing methods for mapping Venus, and other mapping and illustration projects including the diagrams, several illustrations and the collage used for the cover of the NASA Atlas of the Solar System (Cambridge). I am now a free-lance cartographer. My maps appear as endpapers for the book, Mapping Mars, by Oliver Morton (Fourth Estate, London), and in magazine articles including WIRED (9/02), Sky and Telescope (6/03), Astronomie Heute (12/03), Focus (1/04) and Stern (1/04). The Mars Space Flight Facility has used my maps in images for animations for NASA TV, the Space Telescope Science Institute (Hubble) is using them for a multimedia presentation on Mars, and the Planetarium of Madrid will be using the Mars Lambert's projections for a program on Mars. I have just finished working on a
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| Page title: | Ralph Aeschliman Planetary Cartography and Graphics |
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| Description: | Ralph Aeschliman's image maps, albedo maps and topo maps of Mars, Venus, the Moon. Here are selected images of Mars, image maps of Spirit and Opportunity rover landing sites, maps of Valles Marineris. The new online Atlas of Mars divides Mars into 20 quadrangles and has maps of each. These are the North Pole, Alba Patera, Tempe Terra, Cydonia, Nilosyrtis, Utopia, Cebrenia, Tharsis, Marineris, Meridiani, Syrtis Major, Hesperia, Memnonia,Icaria,Argyre, Noachis, Hellas, Prometheus, Cimmeria, and Australe (South Pole) quads. New maps of the Moon include a map of the near side of the Moon (2005), a map of the Hemisphere centered on the 120 degree west meridian (2005), a map of the Apollo 17 mission to the Taurus- Littrow Valley and a link to the USGS Lunar map series. Also included are selected graphics from a little book called 'doodles'. |
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