The next release will include the ability to zoom down to the surface at the. Online you can visualize LROC image footprints, the current position of LRO and the Sun, add the terminator, see crater names and a cartographic grid and much more. by making & placing in adjacent levels tiles made from different imaging dates.Ī nice Cornell discussion of virtual textures relevant to Celestia (& Starry Night):ī) Starry Night's in program "add image" is currently of very limited use for planetary/moon objects since it only supports single images of relatively small size: it would be more useful to redirect this feature to "add an image of a specific latitude longitude location = surface feature" more akin to what Google Earth/Moon/Mars does with added photos. The LROC Team is providing a new interface to the LROC PDS dataset via the Lunaserv Global Explorer. melt or land slides) or E v W lighting/shadows on Lunar or Mercury craters, etc. and space-science communities to integrate planetary maps, geology, and remote sensing for Mars, Venus, the Moon, Mercury, Asteroids, Titan, Io, and more. This is Level 7 in Starry Nights Folder & File naming convention.Ĭelestia & Orbiter support up to at least 13 levels so that one can add very detailed tiles of only specific regions of interest (ROIs) in the upper levels.įor example, this enables comparing detailed changes on Mars (e.g. Please clarify.maybe we have related interests.this is 2019 and there are several easy to use public portals for high quality Solar System mission image data.Ī) The max I can get Starry Night to currently draw for Planets & Moons is virtual texture (VT) 128k resolution. Craters on the two planetary surfaces were chosen through a non-systematic visual survey of WAC mosaics available from the QuickMap web interface.