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LROC released their morphologic global mosaic.
http://wms.lroc.asu.edu/lroc/wac_mosaic
with the individual files here:
http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/data/LRO-L-LRO ... AC_GLOBAL/

Maybe if John is up for it we'll soon see a VT on the motherlode? )

Erwan

as John said, LROC should release some spectacular images once they're satisfied with their calibration/processing. I haven't heard of a date for a global image release (in data form), but will try to ask in a few weeks in LPSC. That would be ideal, as the LROC images are geolocated with the same or...

a little thread bump to let folks here know that the textures were updated. http://imbrium.mit.edu/EXTRAS/CELESTIA/ Those match the LOLA PDS release #5 (March 15, 2011). Still level 5 maximum; level 6 is not justified yet, with a fill of ~20% at this point. John, is the 64k VT available? I couldn't ...

Fridger,
I suppose I can make this 32k product available to you. It will not be available through the same website, so I will put it in a temporary space, on Monday hopefully. Is a JP2 ok? I don't know if your nmtools could handle 32bit, but GMT grd file would be another option.

Erwan

I am not saying this is the international standard. I am just saying that NASA planetary missions are likely to use this standard from now on. Expect Mercury, Vesta, etc. maps to also be 0/360. Obviously, this is workable, so it is not a problem. But it would also probably be very few lines of code ...

Improved VTs available on the same website. There is still a very small seam issue at the equator. We will also correct the (bigger) 0/360 step in the near future. Also, for the image, I now write the 8-bit BIN directly instead of going through GMT/imagemagick/etc; this may remove some of the "...

Chris: good eyes. We had some issues with the blending of various 10-degree latitude band grids, but that should be settled very soon. (too much data to do it globally at once). We're expecting LOLA to continue operating for much longer. So far we've collected >1.3 billion measurements. The main thi...

The LOLA data is now available on NASA PDS ! You can find the common products at http://imbrium.mit.edu/DATA/ , but we also created GeoJPEG2000 files (available in http://imbrium.mit.edu/DATA/LOLA_GDR/ ), much easier to import in software like ArcGIS (projection information is included in the header...