imclab/moon

Moone viewer, images and data

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🌜 Moon Read Me

Data and scripts to view the entire Moon in 3D in your browser - all open source

Outer Space Blog ~ Documents ~ Copyright and License ~ Contacts and Organization

Sample Web Page / Source Code

<iframe class=ifr src="iframe-carousel-r3.html" width=100% height=600px ></iframe>

Concept

Issues / Problems

Seeing Astronomy in Many Ways

• From Earth, we 'see' the Moon as a flat static one-sided disk. Yet we know it is a 3D orb with a surface full of complexity and changes.

Mission

• To provide simple code that flies over the Moon in 3D and to see its craters and rills in detail
• To display the usually hidden backside of the moon as easily as the front side

Vision

• To build a platform that enables all sorts of moon data - gravity, minerals, magnetism, etc - to be displayed in 3D

The Apps

Descriptions and links to the scripts developed so far.

Moon Voyager

• The Moon as a 3D sphere
  • You can rotate, zoom and move the sphere
• 1440 x 720 data points
• Displays placards with the names of 97 important Moon locations according to the-moon.wikispaces.com
• Six apps based on a common core
  • Each app handles Three.js material in a different way
  • Each adds fun feature demos

Moon Voyager Read Me - Web Page
Moon Voyager Read Me - Source Code

Moon Rover Mobile

• The Moon as a flat map - with elevations in 3D
• Intended to be the lightest, fastest loading version of the flat map
  • But with the least detail

Moon Rover Mobile Read Me - Web Page
Moon Rover Mobile Read Me - Source Code

Moon Rover 64P

• 64 pixels per degree
• Good for touring the entire moon quite quickly
• This version was an early version in the current project
  • Will be updated in due course
  • Moon Rover 256P is a better tool for the moment

Moon Rover 64P Read Me - Web Page
Moon Rover 64P Read Me - Source Code

Moon Rover 256P

• 256 pixels per degree ~4.25 billion points of data
• Great detail views of the moon

Moon Rover 256P Read Me - Web Page
Moon Rover 256P Read Me - Source Code

Moon Gazetteer

• Text files with lunar place names, location and other data
• Utilities for dealing with these files

Moon Gazetteer Read Me - Web Page
Moon Gazetteer Read Me - Source Code

Moon Utilities

• Node.js scripts for reading binary IMG heightmap files, creating PNG files and saving these to disk
• Scripts for viewing and testing the files

Moon Utilities Read Me - Web Page
Moon Utilities Read Me - Source Code

The Data

Moon Heightmaps

Perhaps the most important aspect of this project

• Heightmaps for the Moon in a variety of sizes and formats
• Over two gigabytes of heightmap data simply and freely accessible via GitHub
• Data contained in four repositories

Moon Heightmaps Read Me - Web Page
Moon Heightmaps Read Me - Source Code

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Things to Do

Current Mission

• Begin to think of more topics to be added
  • Ideas and sources for image overlays / textures for 3D surfaces such as gravity, geology, magnetism

Code

• Direct links to demos??
• More carousel examples

User Experience

• Add more links
  • Add curator comments to links
• Add to and enhance comments

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Sources

Many thanks to:

Gazetteer data sources:

• Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature
• Lunar 100

Lunar height data source:

• Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera

Links of Interest

Wikipedia: Moon

The Moon Wiki

Multiple studies address riddles of the Moon's origin

Contact

• [email protected]

Copyright and License

• Copyright and License

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Fly me to the moon
And let me play among the stars
Let me see what spring is like
On Jupiter and Mars
- Olivia Ong

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