Today I like to inform you that I published 15-merged quadrangles of your Ceres mapping. The dataset is available via https://zenodo.org/record/7989803 and is citable like Nass, Andrea. (2023). Geologic Map of Ceres [Dawn Mission] – Global dataset based on the 15 individual quadrangle maps [Data set]. In Icarus (Version 01, Vol. 316, pp. 1–204). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7989803 Background: Between 2011 and 2018, the NASA Dawn spacecraft visited asteroid (4) Vesta and dwarf planet (1) Ceres to investigate the surfaces of both protoplanets through optical and hyperspectral imaging ..read more

°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°° Dear colleagues and friends of Planetary Cartography, with this message we would like to draw your attention to the International Cartographic Conference (2023) which will be held in Cape Town, South Africa from the 13th to 18th August 2023. We invite you to contribute with your work by submitting either a full paper or an abstract. Submission deadlines Full paper (max. 8 pages)                 december 05, 2022 Abstract (1-2 pages ..read more

Dear friends for Cartography. the 30th International Cartographic Conference take place hybrid in beautiful Florence and digitally. For those of you who are interested in Planetary Cartography our session takes place with the following topics: Room A106 T20-1. Planetary Cartography — Thursday, December 16 • 17:00 – 18:45 Chairs: Alessandro Frigeri, Andrea Naß 50 Years of Sensor-Based Planetary Cartography: Review and Perspectives Andrea Nass, Stephan Van Gasselt, Trent Hare, Henrik Hargitai Preliminary Geomorphometric Analysis of Selected Martian Scoria Cone-Like Features Using High-Resolutio ..read more

Dear Planetary mappers, In the last years, the Europlanet Science Conferences have regularly hosted a successful session dedicated to planetary maps. In an epoch in which geological mapping demand for planetary exploration is constantly increasing, sessions dedicated to planetary maps are precious occasions to exchange standards, tools, work flows and mapping experiences. For this reason we hope you are willing to submit your contribution to the session entitled “ Geomapping other worlds” to be held at the on lineEuroplanet Science Conference-EPSC2021 from the 13th to ..read more

I´m very happy to present you today a new product which recently could be finished and is now available for everyone. Please have a look to this new post. Cover of new Geographic Pocket Atlas of Mars Geographic Pocket Atlas of Mars – Application for Astronomy Clubs is now open “Mars 36” is the title of a new Atlas of Mars, published for Mars Year 36, with a geographic approach. This is the first planetary Atlas that presents a planetary surface with physical geographic thematic layers. The landforms created by lava, wind, water, and ice are shown separately on a topographic base map. The thema ..read more

After nearly seven months of travel, NASA’s Perseverance rover has successfully touched down on Mars on February 18, 2021. The mission’s goals are to search for evidence of past life and habitable environments in Jezero crater and collect and store samples that, for the first time in history, could be returned to Earth by a future mission. Mars 2020 landing ellipse inside Jezero crater. (Credit: USGS). To safely land on the rugged Martian landscape, the spacecraft used a new technology called “Terrain Relative Navigation.” As it descended through the planet’s atmosphere, the spacecra ..read more

A new paper by authors J. Laura and R. Beyer was just released to help solidify Planetary Spatial Data Infrastructure (PSDI) terms like foundational and framework and provides a thorough knowledge inventory of available planetary data products. see: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/abcb94 As defined by the paper, rigorously accurate foundational products are critical for cartographers when creating derived maps. And by building these these derived maps, for example a elevation-based derived shaded reliefs with contours, cartographers will be creating framework products, thus addi ..read more

Dear colleagues and friends, I´m happy to forward you a invitation as a potential contributor for a very interesting book project. Please see post below and contact Manfred Buchroithner for any questions. All best, Andrea /////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Dear All, As one of the co-founders of the ICA  Commission on Planetary Cartography and one of the assigned co-editors of the book entitled “Advances in Mars Research and Exploration”. I want to invite you heartily to contribute a high-level article of appropriate  interest to this book in preparation. It will ..read more

Special Issue Information Dear Colleagues, Cartography is our only way to place data and knowledge about objects in the solar system into a broader spatial context. It enables us to gather information, detect relationships, and visualize shapes of objects, topographic and compositional characteristics, and temporal dynamics. Cartography helps us to plan, locate, coordinate, and analyze our exploration attempts on various scales. Yet, cartography is more than just the spatial framework that allows us to relate observations. The Special Issue “Cartography of the Solar System—Remote Sensing Beyon ..read more

Rosaly Lopes and her colleagues have completed the map of the major geomorphic units on Titan at 1:20 million scale. They identified and mapped six geomorphic units: plains, dunes, hummocky terrain, lakes, labyrinth terrain and craters and also identifed their stratigraphic relations.   NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU ..read more