Reply to : Bill Gray

> Hi Richard,
>
> At present, all planets, the Sun, Earth's moon, Deimos, Phobos, and the
> Galileans have bitmaps (with some having multiple maps). All the "major" moons
> of Saturn, except for Titan, have bitmaps. Pluto and Charon have maps.
> Amalthea (inner moon of Jupiter, a.k.a. "Barnard's moon") and Proteus (moon
> of Neptune) have maps.
>
> Several smaller moons also have shapes: Deimos, Phobos, Proteus, Amalthea,
> Hyperion, Prometheus, Larissa. I recently found shape data for Phoebe, but
> haven't processed it yet (it's in an oddball format). A few others have
> "shapes" that are actually triaxial ellipsoids, including Pan, Pandora,
> Nix, and Hydra.
>
> Objects for which no real map is available can be mapped with a football
> (soccer ball) pattern. The idea is that you see it's a sphere or ellipsoid,
> but the "map" is clearly not a real one... my preference is that Guide either
> show you how things are, or makes it clear it doesn't know.
>
> Shape data is available for several asteroids, and I'm sure global mosaics
> that could be turned into bitmaps are available for some. I've not actually
> attempted to add these to Guide yet, though.
>
> -- Bill

Why no bitmap for Titan, when there are maps and a globe on Wikipedia ?


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Richard Mallett
Eaton Bray, Dunstable
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