Apollo 17 Landing Site: A Cartographic Investigation of the Taurus-Littrow Valley Based on LROC NAC Imagery
Abstract
A Digital Terrain Model (DTM) of the Taurus- Littrow Valley with a 1.5 m/pixel resolution was derived from high resolution stereo images of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Narrow Angle Camera (LROC NAC) [1]. It was used to create a controlled LROC NAC ortho-mosaic with a pixel size of 0.5 m on the ground. Covering the entire Apollo 17 exploration site, it allows for determining accurate astronaut and surface feature positions along the astronauts' traverses when integrating historic Apollo surface photography to our analysis.
- Publication:
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European Planetary Science Congress
- Pub Date:
- April 2014
- Bibcode:
- 2014EPSC....9..748H