Questions tagged [topographic-map]
A map of the surface features of something.
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Star visibility above horizon map likewise day & light map or moonlight world map
I am looking for an option to present the given star visibility world map likewise day & night map or moonlight world map like below:
Question: Is it possible to generate a map like this for some ...
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What's the map on Sheldon & Leonard's refrigerator of?
In the Big Bang Theory, there's a map on Sheldon & Leonard's refrigerator throughout the entire show It has false-color shadings of various kinds, with prominent craters, and so is presumably of ...
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Surface height distribution for Jupiter's moon Io?
The moon Io has around 100 mountains:
These structures average $6 {\rm\, km}$ in height and reach a maximum of ${\rm 17.5 \pm 1.5\, km}$
I am now looking for the overall histogram, i.e. elevation ...
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Looking for a detailed Milky Way map
I am a UI designer working on a sci-fi strategy video game.
I was wondering wether anybody here might be able to help? I am looking for a top down projection of the Milky Way that labels regions of ...
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How can I find the depth of a portion of the Valles Marineris?
How can I find the depth of the low lying part of this image of the western part of Valles Marineris?
I'm interested in the area northeast of Noctis Labyrinthus, southwest of Tithonium Chasma, north ...
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Why are Mars northern/southern hemisphere altitudes so different?
I'm looking at the Mars topography map:
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...and I can't shake the impression that someone just messed up the placement of the center point of the planet, shifting it about 8km north ...
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What might the surface of Jupiter's rocky core look like? [closed]
Jupiter is posited, in some models, to have a rocky core about the size of a few Earths. If we could see through the thick gaseous atmosphere, what topographical features might we find on the rocky ...
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Why is the Moon smooth near the equator and bumpy near the poles?
It looks as if it was polished by applying emery to its spinning equator.
My initial guess was that it was simply an illusion caused by light direction, but the terrain map shows the same phenomena.
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Topography / elevation data of Mars
For a design project I'm looking for elevation data for Mars' surface - the idea is to replicate a surface area of Mars as a physical model, using the elevation data to create a very rough 3d model of ...
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Are there naturally radiation shielded areas on Mars? (shadowed by terrain formations)
Mars' thin atmosphere and lack of magnetosphere exposes its surface to lots of Solar UV radiation and cosmic radiation. But Mars also has some dramatic altitude gradients in for example Valles ...
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Have Pluto or any of its moons been mapped?
I was looking over some of the data for the terrestrial planets, and noticed that Venus, despite its cloud covering, had been mapped by the Arecibo Observatory. Also that other planets such as mars, ...
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