Europa DEM does it exist? FINALLY FOUND!!

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Europa DEM does it exist? FINALLY FOUND!!

Post #1by trappistplanets » 17.02.2021, 19:26

i did lots of hard research and i check MExLab Geoportal
and bam i found a real europa DEM
its mighty blurry but blurry global/near complete global data>no/tiny data strips
europa-DEM.png
FINALLY FOUND!!
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Post #2by John Van Vliet » 17.02.2021, 21:53

that map looks like it is in Mercator projection ( with missing poles )
and not in Equal area simple cylindrical projection

you might want to check with the original source documentation

Celestia uses the simple cylindrical map projection
-- or cubic projection

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Post #3by trappistplanets » 17.02.2021, 22:00

John Van Vliet wrote:you might want to check with the original source documentation
mexlab uses imple cylindrical map projection

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John Van Vliet wrote:that map looks like it is in Mercator projection ( with missing poles )
no... i reprogected it to simple cylindrical map projection
to see if it was already cylindrical map projection or mercater and when i
did that and check and see if some of the fetures line up nothing lined up
but with the map i posted things do line up
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Post #4by trappistplanets » 18.02.2021, 17:50

i removed artifacts (those big seam like lines) and gave the dem fictional poles
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