PhilStooke

PhilStooke, 6 days ago to random

China's Chang'e 2 spacecraft mapped the Moon in support of later landings including a 7 m/pixel global photomosaic. Later it was redirected to fly past Toutatis. This is a composite of several images taken by a small monitoring camera. There are a few craters but as you can see most of the surface is undulating but not obviously cratered. The image is courtesy CNSA who luckily have adopted basically the same image use policy as NASA.

PhilStooke, 6 days ago to maps

Another version of the map with radius contours (numbers in kilometres). The outline of the map is the shape's convex hull so it doesn't show the deep valley which divides the asteroid into two lobes. Of course, what we really need is a flyby mission with a camera. Luckily there was one later. #maps