Note : This library will not be completed in the future because of the availability of the high resolution Photographic Clementine texture (500 m). (Formations whose official name begins with A and B) Nearside formations pictures taken by american and soviet probes :įormations pictures taken by Clementine american probe :ĭifferent from LOPAM pictures, These new photos have been taken with a solar vertical lighting and show albedo variations in formations. Luna, Ranger, Lunar Orbiter 1,2,3,5 And Surveyor Probes They show formations with angular views different from the view from earth.
New! Nearside formations pictures extracted from Consolidated Lunar Atlas put online by the Lunar and Planetary InstituteĪPOLLO pictures of Nearside taken from orbit by Apollo 8, 10, 11, 12 ,13 ,14 ,15 ,16 and 17 missions from 1968 to 1972. Starry Night Pro Plus 8 is our fully featured flagship program, tailored for the astronomer who wants the very best in-class astronomy software and telescope control experience. Nearside formations pictures extracted from Lunar Astronautical Charts and Lunar Maps put online by the Lunar and Planetary Institute Lunar Astronautical Charts &Amp Lunar Maps
The pictures library for those who don’t want to download more !Īpollo Mapping Cameras pictures from missions Apollo 15,16 & 17 put online by Lunar and Planetary Institute Details to 300 m / pixel.ġ30 pictures of the most famous lunar formations. Pictures extracted from LOPAM and taken by Lunar Orbiter 4 probe. New version destripped using Niels Noordhoek routine (Thanks to him !) Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas Of The Moon ( Lopam )Ĭontains more than 1000 pictures extracted from LOPAM and taken by Lunar Orbiter 4 probe. – Nearside formations pictures by Zac Pujic, Mike Wirths and Craig Zerbe (Thanks to them !) – Nearside formations pictures by Wes Higgins (Thanks to him !) – Nearside formations pictures by Paolo Lazzarotti, (Thanks to him !) Includes 3 pictures libraries with some best amateur formation pictures.
Ideal texture for using with scientific overlays. New! Topographic map drawn with airbrush and without albedo hues.
New! Very high resolution photographic texture with shadowed relief realized from Lunar Orbiters data. High resolution Lunar Orbiter photographic texture New! Photographic texture covering complete lunar globe realized from Clementine probe data (CopyrightÂUSGS / AstrogeologyÂ. Legrand, a retired engineer, formely of the French Ministry for Industry, says, “It is a lot of work for us, but it’s so exciting!” VMA Pro 6 main screen showing new UHR LRO texture and new “Anonymous craters” database.įor more details, contact Christian Legrand.Download Add-ons High resolution Clementine photographic textures Virtual Moon Atlas - the best software is Christian Legrand and Patrick Chevalleys Virtual Moon. The VPA will include the dwarf planet, Ceres, and planet Saturn, its rings and major satellites Mimas, Thetys, Dione, Rhea, Titan and Iapetus. The VMA will include better textures and updated and increased databases, including more than 80 000 craters. The next versions of the atlases are planned for 2018.
Currently, VPA 2.0 is available for Windows, Linux and Mac 0S, and is available in English and French.
An update in December 2016 expanded the project to include Jupiter and its four Galilean Moons. In 2014, Legrand and Chevalley launched the Virtual Planets Atlas (VPA), initially providing atlases on Mercury, Venus and Mars using data from International Astronomical Union (IAU) nomenclatures, NASA and ESA planetary missions, United States Geological Survey (USGS) & JPL mapping works and from amateur astronomers.
Textures include maps from space missions, historical textures permitting easy comparison of work by astronomy pioneers with present data, and a range of scientific overlays, including gravity, temperature, geology, altimetric data, and various chemical elements. Over the past 15 years, the project has had more than 1.7 million downloads from users all over the world and has evolved to include a database with nearly 60 000 entries of features and formations on the Moon’s near and far side. In 2002, keen amateur astronomer, Christian Legrand, and software specialist, Patrick Chevalley, started work on developing the Virtual Moon Atlas (VMA) – a freeware to support observations of the Moon and as a tool for public engagement with Earth’s satellite.