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- ONLINE AND OTHER SOURCES OF IMAGES, DATA, ETC.
-
-
- INTRODUCTION
-
- A wide variety of images, data, catalogs, information releases, and
- other material dealing with space and astronomy may be found on the net.
- The sources with the broadest selection of material are the NASA Ames
- SPACE archive and the National Space Science Data Center (described
- below).
-
- A few sites offer direct dialup access or remote login access, while
- others offer file transfer over the Internet (referred to as 'anonymous
- FTP'). Sites not connected to the Internet cannot use FTP directly, but
- there are a few automated FTP servers which operate via email. Send mail
- containing only the word HELP to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com,
- bitftp@pucc.princeton.edu, or ftpmail@doc.ic.ac.uk, and the servers will
- send you instructions on how to make requests.
-
- Shorthand for a specific file or directory at an anonymous FTP site is
-
- ftp://sitename/pathname[/]
-
- (e.g. ftp://explorer.arc.nasa.gov/pub/SPACE/FAQ/Index). The format has
- been changed to valid URLs for users of the World Wide Web. If you are
- using a normal FTP client, you will connect to the sitename part of the
- URL (explorer.arc.nasa.gov, in this case) and get the file specified by
- the pathname (/pub/SPACE/FAQ/Index). If a '/' terminates the URL, it
- indicates a directory containing multiple files.
-
-
- WORLD WIDE WEB (WWW)
-
- WWW is a global hypermedia network carried on the Internet and
- incorporating popular protocols including FTP, WAIS, gopher, archie,
- NNTP (netnews), etc. The Web is growing at an explosive pace, and huge
- amounts of space-related information are already online. This FAQ is
- evolving towards a fully hyperlinked Web document (a plain text version
- will continue to be posted to the net, of course). The primary change at
- present is the use of Web URLs (Universal Resource Locators) to specify
- files available by FTP (discussed above), sites accessible by telnet
- (URLs of the form telnet://sitename), and Web hypertext documents
- (http://site/page).
-
- If you are not familiar with the Web, you should probably begin by
- obtaining a Web browser (typically NCSA Mosaic for X, Mac, and PC) and
- exploring. The newsgroup 'comp.infosystems.www' is also available.
-
- The NASA Web home page is at
-
- http://hypatia.gsfc.nasa.gov/NASA_homepage.html
-
- Other space-related material may be found on the Web starting with the
- overview page at
-
- http://info.cern.ch/Space/Overview.html
-
- There is also a pointer in the "information by subject" page under
- "Space Science."
-
-
- VIEWING IMAGES
-
- Don't ask for images to be posted to the space/astro newsgroups. They're
- clumsy to access, wasteful of net resources, and inappropriate in
- discussion groups. Retrieve images on your own using FTP or Web clients.
-
- The possible combinations of image formats and machines is forebodingly
- large, and I won't attempt to cover common formats (GIF, etc.) here. To
- read PDS and VICAR (and many other) formats on Unix systems running X,
- use XV 3.00, available in
-
- ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/xv-3.00.tar.Z
-
- The FAQ for the Usenet group alt.binaries.pictures discusses image
- formats and how to get image viewing software. A copy of this document
- is available from the Usenet FAQ archives in
-
- ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/alt.binaries.pictures
-
-
- ONLINE ARCHIVES
-
- DEFENSE METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITE PROGRAM (DMSP)
-
- DMSP is a two satellite constellation of near-polar orbiting, sun
- synchronous satellites monitoring meteorological, oceanographic and
- solar-terrestrial physics environments. DMSP sample data and information
- may be accessed on-line via:
-
- ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/DMSP/
- http://web.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp/dmsp.html
-
- Contact Greg Deuel (dmsp@mail.ngdc.noaa.gov).
-
-
- INFRARED PROCESSING & ANALYSIS CENTER
-
- Caltech's IPAC provides access to an easy-to-use interface for making
- queries of many astronomical catalogs, especially those from the
- Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) mission. You can also query the
- Bright Star catalog, SAO star catalog, a number of extragalactic
- (galaxy/quasar) catalogs, etc. Results can be saved to flat ASCII tables
- or FITS files and copied to your computer via FTP. Using the interface
- requires a machine running X Windows. You can get to IPAC via
-
- http://xcatscan.ipac.caltech.edu
- telnet://xcatscan.ipac.caltech.edu
-
- Log in as "xcatscan" (no password needed).
-
- Contact Joe Mazzarella (mazz@ipac.caltech.edu).
-
-
- LUNAR AND PLANETARY INSTITUTE
-
- LPI offers online searching of planetary science databases, including
- bibliographies, images, meeting abstracts, and other categories.
- Internet users can access LPI via
-
- telnet://lpi.jsc.nasa.gov
-
- Log in as "LPI" (no password needed).
-
- This system is primarily for professionals in planetary science.
-
-
- NASA AMES
-
- Extensive archives are maintained at NASA Ames and are available via
- anonymous FTP or an email server. These archives include many images and
- a wide variety of documents including this FAQ list, NASA press
- releases, shuttle launch advisories, and mission status reports. Please
- note that these are NOT maintained on an official basis.
-
- A listing of files available in the archive is in
-
- ftp://explorer.arc.nasa.gov/pub/SPACE/Index
-
- An email server for the SPACE archive is temporarily out of service due
- to the archive moving to its new home, explorer. Instructions for
- accessing the email server will be returned to the FAQ when the server
- is running again.
-
- Magellan, Voyager, and Viking CD-ROMs are online in
-
- ftp://explorer.arc.nasa.gov/cdrom/
-
- Tens of thousands of images are available.
-
- The GIF directory contains images in GIF format. The VICAR directory
- contains Magellan images in VICAR format (these are also available in
- the GIF directory). A PC program capable of displaying these files is
- found in the IMDISP directory (see the item "VIEWING IMAGES" below).
-
- The NASA media guide describes the various NASA centers and how to
- contact their public affairs officers; this may be useful when pursuing
- specific information. It's in
-
- ftp://explorer.arc.nasa.gov/pub/SPACE/MISC/media.guide
-
- Contact Peter Yee (yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov).
-
-
- NASA ASTROPHYSICS DATA SYSTEM
-
- The ADS is a distributed data retrieval system which is easy to use and
- provides uniform access to ground-based and space-based astronomy data
- from NASA data centers across the country. It currently has over 140
- data catalogs of radio, infrared, optical, UV, and X-ray data which can
- be queried by position or any other parameter in the catalog. The ADS
- also provides tools to manipulate and plot tabular results. In addition,
- ADS has a Beta version of an Abstracts Service which allows users to
- query over 125,000 abstracts of astronomy papers since 1975 by authors,
- keywords, title words, or abstract text words.
-
- ADS use requires direct Internet access. For more info and to sign up to
- become a user, email ads@cuads.coloradu.edu. The User's Guide and
- "QuickStart" Guide (PostScript files) are in
-
- ftp://sao-ftp.harvard.edu/pub/ads/ADS_User_Guide
-
- Contact Carolyn Stern Grant (stern@cfa.harvard.edu).
-
-
- NASA DIRECTORY OF WAIS SERVERS
-
- A WAIS database describing servers of interest to the space community is
- described by the source file:
-
- (:source
- :version 3
- :ip-name "ndadsb.gsfc.nasa.gov"
- :tcp-port 210
- :database-name "NASA-directory-of-servers"
- :cost 0.00
- :cost-unit :free
- :maintainer "stelar-info@Hypatia.gsfc.nasa.gov"
- :description "Server created with WAIS release 8 b5.1 on May 5 14:05:34 1993 by warnock@Hypatia
-
- Maintainers of WAIS databases of interest to the NASA community can
- register their databases with the NASA-directory-of-servers by sending
- the source file to stelar-info@hypatia.gsfc.nasa.gov. Contact Archie
- Warnock (warnock@hypatia.gsfc.nasa.gov).
-
-
- NASA JET PROPULSION LAB (MISSION INFORMATION AND IMAGES)
-
- ftp://pubinfo.jpl.nasa.gov
-
- is an anonymous FTP site operated by the JPL Public Information Office,
- containing news releases, status reports, fact sheets, images, and other
- data on JPL missions. It may also be reached by modem at (818)-354-1333
- (no parity, 8 data bits, 1 stop bit).
-
- Contact newsdesk@jplpost.jpl.nasa.gov or phone (818)-354-7170.
-
-
- NASA LANGLEY (TECHNICAL REPORTS)
-
- ftp://techreports.larc.nasa.gov/pub/techreports/larc/92/
-
- offers technical reports. Start with files README and abstracts.92. Most
- files are compressed PostScript. The reports are also in a WAIS database
- with the following description:
-
- (:source
- :version 3
- :ip-name "techreports.larc.nasa.gov"
- :tcp-port 210
- :database-name "nasa-larc-abs"
- :cost 0.00
- :cost-unit :free
- :maintainer "M.L.Nelson@LaRC.NASA.GOV"
- :description "NASA Langley Research Center Technical Reports
-
- Contact tr-admin@techreports.larc.nasa.gov.
-
-
- NASA SPACELINK
-
- SpaceLink is an online service located at Marshall Space Flight Center
- in Huntsville, Alabama. The system is specifically designed for
- teachers. The data base is arranged to provide easy access to current
- and historical information on NASA aeronautics, space research, and
- technology transfer information. Also included are suggested classroom
- activities that incorporate information on NASA projects to teach a
- number of scientific principles. Unlike bulletin board systems, NASA
- Spacelink does not provide for interaction between callers. However it
- does allow teachers and other callers to leave questions and comments
- for NASA which may be answered by regular mail. Messages are answered
- electronically, even to acknowledge requests which will be fulfilled by
- mail. Messages are generally handled the next working day except during
- missions when turnaround times increase. The mail system is closed-loop
- between the user and NASA.
-
- SpaceLink also offers downloadable shareware and public domain programs
- useful for science educators as well as space graphics and GIF images
- from NASA's planetary probes and the Hubble Telescope.
-
- You can access SpaceLink via
-
- telnet://spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov
- ftp://spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov
-
- Or you can dial in at (205)-895-0028 (300/1200/2400/9600(V.32) baud, 8
- bits, no parity, 1 stop bit).
-
- Most of this information is also available from the Ames server in
-
- ftp://explorer.arc.nasa.gov/pub/SPACE/SPACELINK
-
-
- NATIONAL SPACE SCIENCE DATA CENTER (NSSDC)
-
- The National Space Science Data Center is the official clearinghouse for
- NASA data. The data catalog (*not* the data itself) is available online:
-
- telnet://nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov
-
- Log in as "NODIS" (no password). You can also get the catalog by sending
- email to 'request@nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov'.
-
- You can also dial in at (301)-286-9000 (300, 1200, or 2400 baud, 8 bits,
- no parity, one stop). At the "Enter Number:" prompt, enter MD and
- carriage return. When the system responds "Call Complete," enter a few
- more carriage returns to get the "Username:" and log in as "NODIS" (no
- password).
-
- The system is menu-driven; topics available as of 3/93 are:
-
- 1 - Master Directory - NASA & Global Change
- 2 - Personnel Information Management System
- 3 - Nimbus-7 GRID TOMS Data
- 4 - Interplanetary Medium Data (OMNI)
- 5 - Request data and/or information from NSSDC
- 6 - Geophysical Models
- 7 - CANOPUS Newsletter
- 8 - International Ultraviolet Explorer Data Request
- 9 - CZCS Browse and Order Utility
- 10 - Astronomical Data Center (ADC)
- 11 - STEP Bulletin Board Service
- 12 - Standards and Technology Information System
- 13 - Planetary Science & Magellan Project Information
- 14 - Other Online Data Services at NSSDC
- 15 - CD-ROMS Available at NSSDC
-
- For users with Internet access, datasets are made available via
- anonymous FTP once you select the desired datasets from the online
- catalog. For other users, data may be ordered on CD-ROM and in other
- formats. Among the many types of data available are Voyager, Magellan,
- and other planetary images, Earth observation data, and star catalogs.
- Viewers for Macintosh and IBM systems are also available. As an example
- of the cost, an 8 CD set of Voyager images is $75. Data may ordered
- online, by email, or by physical mail. The postal address is:
-
- National Space Science Data Center
- Request Coordination Office
- Goddard Space Flight Center
- Code 633
- Greenbelt, MD 20771
-
- Telephone: (301) 286-6695
-
- Email address: request@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov
-
-
- SPACE TELESCOPE SCIENCE INSTITUTE ELECTRONIC INFORMATION SERVICE
-
- STEIS contains a large amount of information about the Hubble Space
- Telescope, such as status reports and newsletters, in addition to
- material oriented towards HST observers and proposers. To get started,
-
- ftp://stsci.edu/README
-
- Contact Pete Reppert (reppert@stsci.edu) or Chris O'Dea (odea@stsci.edu).
-
-
- STARCAT
-
- The Space Telescope European Coordination Facility, at ESO/Garching
- provides on-line access to a huge astronomical database, featuring
-
- - Observation log files of several satellites/telescopes
- (IUE,IRAS,HST,NTT...).
- - Spectra and images (IUE, HST).
- - Most of the astronomical catalogues (SAO, HR, NGC, PPM, IRAS,
- Veron, GSC and many others, more than 50) in a very convenient
- way (give center+radius+kind of objects, and you get the
- corresponding files!).
-
- Access at
-
- telnet://stesis.hq.eso.org (or STESIS on DECnet).
-
- Log in as "starcat" (no password). Files created can be retrieved via
- FTP. Contact: Benoit Pirenne (bpirenne@eso.org) (phone +49 89 320 06
- 433) at ST-ECF
-
-
- ASTRONOMICAL DATABASES
-
- The full SAO stellar database is probably not available online yet. It
- may be ordered on magnetic tape from the NSSDC. A subset containing
- position and magnitude only is available by FTP (see "Astronomy
- Programs" below).
-
- ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/astro/
-
- contains a large collection of astronomical programs for many types of
- computers, databases of stars and deep sky objects, and general
- astronomy information. This site is mainly for European users, but
- overseas connections are possible.
-
- ftp://explorer.arc.nasa.gov/pub/SPACE/MISC/galaxy.dat
-
- is a database of 8,436 galaxies including name, RA, declination,
- magnitude, and radial velocity, supplied by Wayne Hayes
- (wayne@csri.utoronto.ca).
-
- ftp://explorer.arc.nasa.gov:pub/SPACE/FAQ/
-
- contains constellation boundary data (files constell.*) in a form
- suitable for the construction of star charts and atlases.
-
- ftp://iris1.ucis.dal.ca/pub/gif/
-
- contains a number of GIFs from Voyager, Hubble, and other sources (most
- of this data is also in pub/SPACE/GIF on the Ames server). Please
- restrict access to 5pm - 8am Atlantic time.
-
- ftp://pomona.claremont.edu (directory [ANONYMOUS.YALE_BSC])
-
- contains the Yale Bright Star catalog. Web users, note that this is a
- VMS site and Mosaic does not get along with their server, so this URL is
- a placeholder - run FTP manually. Contact James Dishaw
- (jdishaw@pomona.claremont.edu).
-
- The Hubble Guide Star catalog is available on CD-ROM for the Mac and PC
- for $49.95 US (catalog #ST101).
-
- Astronomical Society of the Pacific
- 390 Ashton Ave.
- San Francisco, CA 94112
- Phone: (415) 337-2624 9 AM - 3 PM Pacific Time
- FAX: (415) 337-5205
-
- For German (and possibly other European) readers, Jost Jahn
- (j.jahn@abbs.hanse.de) has a mail service to distribute astronomical
- data to interested amateurs at cost. About 30-40 catalogs are available
- for DM 6..8/disk. Several floppy disk formats are available. He also has
- a FAX service with current news on the observable sky. Email him if
- interested in these services, or write:
-
- Jost Jahn
- Neustaedter Strasse 11
- W-3123 Bodenteich
- GERMANY
- Phone: FRG-5824-3197
- FAX: (49)-581-14824
-
-
- ASTRONOMY PROGRAMS
-
- A more complete list is posted monthly to sci.astro or available in
-
- ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/astro/general/astroftp.txt
-
- This list is maintained by Veikko Makela (Veikko.Makela@Helsinki.FI).
-
-
- Some astronomy-related programs and databases archived from
- Usenet source groups:
-
- ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/comp.sources.unix/volume8/phoon.Z
- Moon phase and date routines
- ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume8/moon.Z
- Another moon phase program
- ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/comp.sources.unix/volume15/moontool.Z
- Show moon phase picture on Suns
-
- ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/comp.sources.unix/volume12/starcharts/
- ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/comp.sources.unix/volume13/starchart/
- Starchart program & Yale star data
- ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume11/starchart
- Starchart program, version 3.2
- ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume12/starchart2
- Starchart program, update to version 3.2.1
- ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/comp.sources.unix/volume16/sao/
- Reduced SAO catalog
- ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume11/n3emo-orbit
- ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume14/n3emo-orbit
- Orbit: track earth satellites
- ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume13/jupmoons
- Plotter for Jupiter's major moons [in perl]
- ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume13/lunisolar
- Lunisolar (not sure what this does)
- ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume18/planet
- Planet generation simulator
-
- Xephem is an interactive astronomical ephemeris program for X11R4/Motif
- 1.1 (or later) X Windows systems. It computes lots of information about
- the planets and any solar system objects for which orbital elements are
- available. A sample database of some 16000+ objects is included in the
- release kit. It's in
-
- ftp://export.lcs.mit.edu/contrib/xephem/xephem_2.4e.tar.Z
-
- and has been submitted to comp.sources.x. Contact Elwood Downey
- (ecdowney@noao.edu). Ephem is the forefather of xephem designed for
- simple 24x80 character displays, in
-
- ftp://export.lcs.mit.edu/contrib/ephem_4.28.tar.Z
-
- XSAT, an X based satellite tracking program, is available in
-
- ftp://export.lcs.mit.edu/contrib/xsat1.0.tar.Z
-
- Contact Dave Curry (davy@ecn.purdue.edu).
-
- Xsky 2.0.1, a computerized sky atlas for the X Window System, is
- available in
-
- ftp://arizona.edu (file path [.software.unix.xsky]xsky2-0-1.tarz)
-
- (This is a VMS FTP site, so the URL is nonfunctioning). Contact Terry R.
- Friedrichsen (terry@venus.sunquest.com).
-
- The "Variable Stars Analysis Software Archive" is in
-
- ftp://kauri.vuw.ac.nz/pub/astrophys/
-
- This is intended for specialists in this field, and they would
- appreciate people from outside New Zealand confining their FTP access to
- the astrophys directory, as they pay a significant amount for Internet
- access. Contributions are encouraged. Contact the archive administrator,
- Timothy Banks (bankst@kauri.vuw.ac.nz).
-
- The "IDL Astronomy Users Library" is in
-
- ftp://idlastro.gsfc.nasa.gov/README
-
- This is a central repository for general purpose astronomy procedures
- written in IDL, a commercial image processing, plotting, and programming
- language. Contact Wayne Landsman (landsman@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov).
-
-
- ORBITAL ELEMENT SETS
-
- The most recent orbital elements from the NASA Prediction Bulletins are
- carried on the Celestial BBS, (513)-427-0674. Documentation and tracking
- software are also available on this system. The Celestial BBS may be
- accessed 24 hours/day at 300, 1200, or 2400 baud using 8 data bits, 1
- stop bit, no parity.
-
- Orbital element sets are FTPable from the following directories:
-
- ftp://archive.afit.af.mil/pub/space/ NASA,TVRO,Shuttle
- ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/astro/pc/satel/ NASA,TVRO,Molczan,CelBBS,Shuttle
- ftp://kilroy.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/space/ NASA,Molczan
-
-
- SPACE DIGEST ARCHIVES
-
- Copies of back issues of Space Digest are archived on
- LISTSERV@UGA.BITNET. Send mail containing the message "INDEX SPACE" to
- get an index of files; send it the message "GET filename filetype" to
- get a particular file.
-
-
- GEOSPHERE PROJECT (FULL EARTH IMAGE)
-
- Tom van Sant's GeoSphere Project has produced a very nice composite
- image of the entire Earth (without clouds, so all the surface is
- visible) by assembling thousands of Landsat images. This image is not in
- the public domain; any digital copies made available by anonymous FTP
- are illegal.
-
- GeoSphere offers the image in a variety of printed forms (posters, mugs,
- globes, etc.). Contact them at (800)-845-1522 for a catalog. They may be
- willing to license the digital database for specific uses, contact them
- for details.
-
-
- LANDSAT AND NASA PHOTOS
-
- You can get black-and-white 1:1M prints, negatives, or positives for
- $10, $18, $12 respectively for any Landsat data more than 2 years old
- from EDC, (Eros (Earth Resources Orbiting Satellite) Data Center). Call
- them at (605)-594-6511. You get 80 meter resolution from the MSS
- scanner, 135x180 kilometers on a picture 135x180 mm in size. I think you
- have to select one band from (green, red, near IR, second near IR), but
- I'm not sure. Digitial data is also available at higher prices.
-
- Transparencies of all NASA photos available to the public can be
- borrowed from the NASA photo archive; you can have copies or prints
- made.
-
- NASA Audio-Visual Facility
- 918 North Rengstorff Ave
- Mountain View, CA 94043
- (415)-604-6270
-
-
- PLANETARY MAPS
-
- The following list gives brief references to maps of all bodies other
- than Earth for which maps have been drawn - 45 by Nov. 1993. The list
- will be updated periodically. Where many maps exist for a world (e.g.
- Mars) a good general purpose global map is listed. Where appropriate
- these are subdivided further: relief maps (usually with feature names),
- topography (contours), geological maps etc. Otherwise (e.g. Deimos) the
- best available map is listed. Some (e.g. Comet Encke) are very simple
- diagrams of possible surface features ('sketch' under map type). A few
- interesting atlases are listed at the end of the main table. Users
- noting errors or omissions are urged to contact Phil Stooke at
- stooke@vaxr.sscl.uwo.ca.
-
- References: USGS refers to the U.S. Geological Survey. Order maps by I-
- number from USGS Map Sales, Box 25286, Denver, Colorado USA 80225. Most
- maps cost about $3 per sheet (some listed maps are sets of several
- sheets), but check cost with USGS before ordering. NASA Tech. Memo.
- 4395, 'Indexes of Maps of the Planets and Satellites 1992' by J.L. Inge
- and R.M. Batson, is an excellent guide to sheet maps (but not the
- journal illustrations). Apollo-era Moon maps (LAC, LTO) are mostly out
- of print, but some may still be available from NSSDC (as are NASA
- CD-ROMs): National Space Science Data Center, Goddard Space Flight
- Center, Greenbelt, Maryland USA 20771. Other references are to books and
- journals. Although not full bibliographic entries, to save space, there
- should be enough information to enable the item to be found.
-
- I will answer questions about planetary maps by e-mail at:
- stooke@vaxr.sscl.uwo.ca (Phil Stooke)
-
-
- BODY MAP TYPE REFERENCE
-
- Mercury relief USGS maps I-1149,1171,1822
- geology USGS maps I-1199,1233,1408,1409,1658,1659,1660,
- 2015,2148
- atlas Davies et al., ATLAS OF MERCURY, NASA SP-423, 1978
- globe USGS (out of print- see at Cornell U. or LPI)
- Venus relief USGS map I-2041 (Venera 15/16 data)
- topography USGS map I-1324 (Pioneer Venus data)
- + GxDR CD-ROM (Magellan) available from NSSDC
- geology USGS map I-2059 (Venera 15/16 data)
- atlas ATLAS POVERKHNOSTI VENERY, Russia, 1989
- globe USGS (out of print - see at Cornell U. or LPI)
- Moon relief USGS maps I-1218,1326,2276
- topography NSSDC: LAC maps (earthside)+ LTO maps (Apollo zone)
- geology USGS maps I-703,948,1034,1047,1062,1162,
- + Wilhelms, USGS Professional Paper 1348, 1987
- atlas LUNAR ORBITER PHOTO ATLAS, NASA SP-206, 1971
- + A. Rukl, ATLAS OF THE MOON, Hamlyn, 1990
- globe Replogle Globes (via Sky Publ., ads in SKY+TELESCOPE)
- Mars relief USGS maps I-1618,2179
- topography USGS map I-2160
- + MDIM CD-ROM, disk 7, available from NSSDC
- geology USGS map I-1802
- digital MDIM CD-ROMs, disks 1-6, available from NSSDC
- atlas Batson et al., ATLAS OF MARS, NASA SP-438, 1979
- globe Sky Publishing (ads in SKY+TELESCOPE)
- Phobos outline Thomas, ICARUS, 40: 223-243, 1979
- relief Bugaevsky et al., ADV.SPACE.RES. 12(9):17-21, 1992
- topography Thomas, ICARUS, in press
- globe Max Planck Institut fur Physik+Astrophys., 1988
- Deimos outline Thomas, ICARUS, 40: 223-243, 1979
- relief Stooke, SKY+TELESCOPE 69:551-553, 1985
- topography Thomas, ICARUS, in press
- Amalthea sketch Veverka et al., J.GEOPHYS.RES. 86:8675-8692, 1981
- relief,top Stooke, EARTH,MOON,PLANETS 56:123-139, 1992
- Io relief USGS map I-1713
- topography Gaskell+Synnott,GEOPHYS.RES.LET. 15:581-584, 1988
- geology USGS map I-2209
- Europa relief USGS maps I-1241,1493,1499
- geology SATELLITES OF JUPITER, Ch.14, U.Arizona Press, 1982
- Ganymede relief USGS map I-2331
- geology USGS map I-1934,1966 (13 other sheets to come)
- Callisto relief USGS map I-1239,2035
- Prometheus relief,top Stooke, EARTH,MOON,PLANETS, in press
- Pandora relief,top Stooke, EARTH,MOON,PLANETS, in press
- Janus relief,top Stooke, EARTH,MOON,PLANETS, in press
- Epimetheus relief,top Stooke, EARTH,MOON,PLANETS, in press
- Mimas relief USGS maps I-1489,2155
- geology Croft, NASA TECH.MEM. 4300, 95-97, 1991
- Enceladus relief USGS maps I-1485,2156
- geology Smith et al., SCIENCE, 215:504-537, 1982
- Tethys relief USGS maps I-1488,2158
- geology Moore+Ahern, J.GEOPHYS.RES. 88:A577-A584, 1983
- Dione relief USGS maps I-1487,2157
- geology Moore, ICARUS, 59:205-220, 1984
- Rhea relief USGS maps I-1484,1921
- geology Moore et al., J.GEOPHYS.RES. 90:C785-C795, 1985
- Titan sketch Lemmon et al., ICARUS 103:329-332, 1993
- Hyperion sketch Thomas+Veverka, ICARUS, 64:414-424, 1985
- Iapetus relief USGS maps I-1486,2159
- geology Croft, NASA TECH.MEM. 4300, 101-103, 1991
- Phoebe sketch Thomas et al., J.GEOPHYS.RES. 88:8736-8742, 1983
- Puck sketch Croft+Soderblom, URANUS, U.Ariz.Press, 1991
- Miranda relief USGS map I-1920
- topography Wu, LUNAR PLANET.SCI XVIII, 1110-1111, 1987
- geology Croft+Soderblom, URANUS, U.Ariz.Press, 1991
- Ariel relief USGS map I-1920
- geology Croft+Soderblom, URANUS, U.Ariz.Press, 1991
- Umbriel relief USGS map I-1920
- geology Croft+Soderblom, URANUS, U.Ariz.Press, 1991
- Titania relief USGS map I-1920
- geology Croft+Soderblom, URANUS, U.Ariz.Press, 1991
- Oberon relief USGS map I-1920
- geology Croft+Soderblom, URANUS, U.Ariz.Press, 1991
- Larissa relief Stooke, to be submitted to EARTH,MOON,PLANETS
- Proteus sketch Croft, ICARUS, 99:402-419, 1992
- relief,top Stooke, to be submitted to EARTH,MOON,PLANETS
- Triton relief USGS map I-2153,2154,2275
- geology Smith et al., SCIENCE 246:1422-1449, 1989
- Pluto albedo Buie et al., ICARUS, 97:211-227, 1992
- Charon albedo Buie et al., ICARUS, 97:211-227, 1992
- 4 Vesta sketch Stooke, ASTER.COMET.METEOR.'91 Proceedings, 1992
- 29 Amphitrite sketch Barucci et al., ASTER.COMET.METEOR.II, 89-92, 1986
- 243 Ida sketch Binzel et al., submitted to ICARUS.
- 532 Herculina sketch Taylor et al., ICARUS, 69:354-369, 1987
- 624 Hektor sketch Hartmann+Cruikshank, ICARUS, 36:353-366, 1978
- 951 Gaspra topography Thomas et al., ICARUS, in press
- Comet Encke sketch Sekanina, ASTRON.J. 96:1455-1475, 1988
- Comet Halley sketch Moehlmann+,COM.IN POST-HALLEY ERA,p.764,Kluwer 1991
- relief,top Stooke+Abergel, ASTRON.ASTROPHYS. 248:656-668, 1991
- Swift-Tuttle sketch Sekanina, ASTRON.J. 86:1741-1773, 1981
- Tempel-2 sketch Sekanina, ASTRON.J. 102:350-388, 1991
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- Interesting atlases: (no single source has maps of all bodies listed above)
-
- ATLAS PLANET ZEMNOI GRUPPA... (atlas of terrestrial planets), Russia, 1992
- ATLAS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM, Hunt & Moore (eds), Rand McNally, 1983
- THE ASTRONOMER'S MANUAL, A. Rukl, Crescent Books, 1989.
- VOYAGER ATLAS OF SIX SATURNIAN SATELLITES, Batson et al., NASA SP-474, 1984
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- COMETARY ORBIT DATA
-
- The Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams and the Minor Planet
- Center announce the sixth edition of the Catalogue of Cometary Orbits in
- IAU Circular 4935. The catalogue contains 1292 entries which represent
- all known comets through November 1989 and is 96 pages long.
- Non-subscribers to the Circulars may purchase the catalogue for $15.00
- while the cost to subscribers is $7.50. The basic catalogue in ASCII
- along with a program to extract specific orbits and calculate
- ephemerides is available on MS-DOS 5.25-inch 2S2D diskette at a cost of
- $75.00 (the program requires an 8087 math coprocessor). The catalogue
- alone is also available by e-mail for $37.50 or on magnetic tape for
- $300.00.
-
- Except for the printed version of the catalogue, the various magnetic
- media or e-mail forms of the catalogue do not specifically meantion
- non-subscribers. It is possible that these forms of the catalogue may
- not be available to non-subscribers or that their prices may be more
- expensive than those given. Mail requests for specific information and
- orders to:
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- Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
- Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
- Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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