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I didn't find any Level 10 global coverage Moon textures, so I decided to make one.
It's based on USGS Clementine's UVVIS mosaic v1.0 (composed in 1999). There is already updated (in late 2008) v2.0 of this mosaic, but I filled some gaps and added colors from lower resolution textures based on previous version, so it wouldn't comply with corrected by v2.0 locations of some Moon features.
I don't know if I update it to use Clementine UVVIS v2.0 mosaic, when I have all needed data. But most likely I'll just wait for global coverage from LROC
The effective size of texture is 32768 x 16384 pixels. All files (including generated levels 1-8) take 250 MB of HDD space, but I haven't tested yet how much space would take compressed archive.
Most of work I've done using GIMP. Currently I'm comparing my L10 texture to some previously released by others L9 textures, as also to L8 from Orbiter 2006 & 2009. Eventually I'll adjust brightness or colors a bit, or move it few pixels left or right.
What do you think? Is this worth uploading to Orbithangar?
Plato crater @ L10:
A view on Sinus Iridium & Jura Mountains (and Brighton Beach, but just invisible from this altitude):
Probably level 7 of those textures:
It's based on USGS Clementine's UVVIS mosaic v1.0 (composed in 1999). There is already updated (in late 2008) v2.0 of this mosaic, but I filled some gaps and added colors from lower resolution textures based on previous version, so it wouldn't comply with corrected by v2.0 locations of some Moon features.
I don't know if I update it to use Clementine UVVIS v2.0 mosaic, when I have all needed data. But most likely I'll just wait for global coverage from LROC
The effective size of texture is 32768 x 16384 pixels. All files (including generated levels 1-8) take 250 MB of HDD space, but I haven't tested yet how much space would take compressed archive.
Most of work I've done using GIMP. Currently I'm comparing my L10 texture to some previously released by others L9 textures, as also to L8 from Orbiter 2006 & 2009. Eventually I'll adjust brightness or colors a bit, or move it few pixels left or right.
What do you think? Is this worth uploading to Orbithangar?
Plato crater @ L10:
A view on Sinus Iridium & Jura Mountains (and Brighton Beach, but just invisible from this altitude):
Probably level 7 of those textures: