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Merging of the USGS Atlas of Mercury 1:5,000,000 Geologic SeriesAfter 30 years, the planet Mercury is going to give us new information. The NASA MESSENGER [1] already made its first successful flyby on December 2007 while the European Space Agency and the Japanese Space Agency ISAS/JAXA are preparing the upcoming mission BepiColombo [2]. In order to contribute to current and future analyses on the geology of Mercury, we have started to work on the production of a single digital geologic map of Mercury derived from the merging process of the geologic maps of the Atlas of Mercury, produced by the United States Geological Survey, based on Mariner 10 data. The aim of this work is to merge the nine maps so that the final product reflects as much as possible the original work. Herein we describe the data we used, the working environment and the steps made for producing the final map.
Document ID
20080041018
Acquisition Source
Headquarters
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Frigeri, A.
(Perugia Univ. Perugia, Italy)
Federico, C.
(Perugia Univ. Perugia, Italy)
Pauselli, C.
(Perugia Univ. Perugia, Italy)
Coradini, A.
(Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario Rome, Italy)
Date Acquired
August 24, 2013
Publication Date
June 23, 2008
Publication Information
Publication: Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of Planetary Geologic Mappers, Flagstaff, AZ, 2008
Subject Category
Geophysics
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
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