Planetary image finders

Note:

If you are interested in seeing just a few good pictures of a planet, there is a good overview of planetary images at JPL and a tour with images and commentary at Los Alamos. Also try "The Nine Planets" (two identical locations served from U.S. and Europe).

In contrast, the goal here is to provide access to detailed maps and to high-resolution raw images, intended for those studying specific sites.

CD-ROM status:

Now that the full set of CD-ROMs is online, I need to regenerate the Viking and Voyager image-finders to reflect this. -- 1/28/95

• Mars atlas and Viking Orbiter image-finder

• Earth image-finder for Shuttle images

• Voyagers to the outer planets:
  an image finder for the Voyager flyby of the outer planets. Images for each planet or moon are plotted by the longitude that was facing Voyager at the time of the image, and by the latitude Voyager was directly over. They are also indexed by description. (Only the description index is available for Neptune and its moons.) The full or browse images may be displayed by clicking on an image's "CD-ROM" or "thumbnail" icon. The images are in the same format as the Mars data and need to be set up the same way. At the moment, the navigation is very primitive: one alphabetic directory list of moon and planet names, with a directory of choices under each.

Other planetary image collections available elsewhere:

1. browser including feature names [PDS microwave subnode at MIT]
2. browser based on clickable map [PDS imaging node at JPL]
3. Venus Hypermap [UCLA]

Saturn ring/moon/star position plotter for ring crossings and moon tracker at PDS Rings Node.

A couple of Mercury images are at NSSDC.

Pluto has never been explored, though a flyby mission is planned.