Quick and dirty Cassini Titan texture
Posted: 05.07.2004, 17:09
Other people are, I'm sure, hard at work on nice-looking Titan maps based on Cassini data. In the meantime, here's a crude 1024x512 map suitable for Celestia, based on the earlier rotation series:
http://world.std.com/~mmcirvin/titanmap.jpg
I've just clipped out the map available at
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gs2.cgi?path=../multimedia/images/large-moons/images/PIA06086.jpg&type=image
resized it, shifted the longitude origin to the center, and made minor efforts to patch up the seam there (the Cassini imaging team took out most of the seams associated with the original mosaic, but didn't do anything to avoid a wraparound seam in their map at zero longitude).
The colors are completely fictitious, of course, but I haven't done anything to fill in the regions of no data, which I just colored dull brown. Nor have I filled in the south polar region with the new flyby pictures.
http://world.std.com/~mmcirvin/titanmap.jpg
I've just clipped out the map available at
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gs2.cgi?path=../multimedia/images/large-moons/images/PIA06086.jpg&type=image
resized it, shifted the longitude origin to the center, and made minor efforts to patch up the seam there (the Cassini imaging team took out most of the seams associated with the original mosaic, but didn't do anything to avoid a wraparound seam in their map at zero longitude).
The colors are completely fictitious, of course, but I haven't done anything to fill in the regions of no data, which I just colored dull brown. Nor have I filled in the south polar region with the new flyby pictures.
