Mars in
2007-2008
Animation
and Cartography
Inspired by an article on
Sky&Telescope
of February 2004, I've realized a cartography of the whole planet using
the images captured across the opposition, in December 2007 and January
2008. The main steps are:
- select the best images for
every
longitude
on Mars
- project the images on a
cilindrical
projection
(I've used Iris)
- compose the projection of
different
locations
in a global map (I've used Photoshop)
- reproject the map on a sphere
to
realize
an animation of Mars (I've wrote a Matlab script to automatize this
step)
Here are the results: the map and the
animation.
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MARS
ANIMATION
Click
on the preview to download the AVI animation. DivX 5.21 or better required. See also the 2003 animation.
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25 jan 08
17 jan 08
9 jan 08
8 jan 08
1 jan 08
31 dec 08
30 dec 08
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27 dec 08
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15 dec 08
14 ott 08
The
main instrument
