Pluto and Charon
This page lists identified foundational data products for Pluto and charon. These data are updated as the maintainers become aware of either new products or updated information about an existing product. This page was last updated .
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Body | Product name | Product type | Horizontal accuracy | Vertical accuracy | Resolution | Coverage | Status | Offline formats | Online formats | Data producer | Data provider | References |
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Charon | Control Network | Geodetic Coordinate Reference Frame (or Proxy) | ? | ? | N/A | ? | Unreleased | [ISIS] | ? | Shenk, et al. | unreleased | Citation: Schenk, Beyer & al., 2018 Schenk, P., Beyer, R., McKinnon, W., Moore, J., Spencer, J., White, O., Singer, K., Umurhan, O., Nimmo, F., Lauer, T., Grundy, W., Robbins, S., Stern, S., Weaver, H., Young, L., Smith, K. & Olkin, C. (2018). Breaking up is hard to do: Global cartography and topography of Pluto’s mid-sized icy Moon Charon from New Horizons. Icarus, 315. 124 – 145. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2018.06.010 |
Charon | DEM | Elevation | ? | 1000m - 100m | 35.25ppd / 300mpp | ~40% (to available data) | Current | [GeoTiff Cube] | WMS | Shenk, et al. | USGS | Citation: Schenk, Beyer & al., 2018 Schenk, P., Beyer, R., McKinnon, W., Moore, J., Spencer, J., White, O., Singer, K., Umurhan, O., Nimmo, F., Lauer, T., Grundy, W., Robbins, S., Stern, S., Weaver, H., Young, L., Smith, K. & Olkin, C. (2018). Breaking up is hard to do: Global cartography and topography of Pluto’s mid-sized icy Moon Charon from New Horizons. Icarus, 315. 124 – 145. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2018.06.010 |
Charon | Mosaic | Absolutely Controlled Unrectified Image Mosaic | ? | ? | 35.25ppd / 300mpp 35km - 0.15kmpp (actual resolution) | ~40% (to available data) | Current | [GeoTiff Cube] | WMS | Shenk, et al. | USGS | Citation: Schenk, Beyer & al., 2018 Schenk, P., Beyer, R., McKinnon, W., Moore, J., Spencer, J., White, O., Singer, K., Umurhan, O., Nimmo, F., Lauer, T., Grundy, W., Robbins, S., Stern, S., Weaver, H., Young, L., Smith, K. & Olkin, C. (2018). Breaking up is hard to do: Global cartography and topography of Pluto’s mid-sized icy Moon Charon from New Horizons. Icarus, 315. 124 – 145. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2018.06.010 |
Pluto | Control Network | Geodetic Coordinate Reference Frame (or Proxy) | ? | ? | N/A | ? | Unreleased | [ISIS] | ? | Shenk, et al. | unreleased | Citation: Schenk, Beyer & al., 2018 Schenk, P., Beyer, R., McKinnon, W., Moore, J., Spencer, J., White, O., Singer, K., Nimmo, F., Thomason, C., Lauer, T., Robbins, S., Umurhan, O., Grundy, W., Stern, S., Weaver, H., Young, L., Smith, K. & Olkin, C. (2018). Basins, fractures and volcanoes: Global cartography and topography of Pluto from New Horizons. Icarus, 314. 400 – 433. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2018.06.008 |
Pluto | Global Mosaic | Absolutely Controlled Unrectified Image Mosaic | ? | ? | 69.13ppd / 300mpp | ~42% (to available data) | Current | [GeoTiff Cube] | WMS | Shenk, et al. | USGS | Citation: Schenk, Beyer & al., 2018 Schenk, P., Beyer, R., McKinnon, W., Moore, J., Spencer, J., White, O., Singer, K., Nimmo, F., Thomason, C., Lauer, T., Robbins, S., Umurhan, O., Grundy, W., Stern, S., Weaver, H., Young, L., Smith, K. & Olkin, C. (2018). Basins, fractures and volcanoes: Global cartography and topography of Pluto from New Horizons. Icarus, 314. 400 – 433. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2018.06.008 |
Pluto | DEM | Elevation | ? | 800m - 100m | 69.13ppd / 300mpp | ~42% (to available data) | Current | [GeoTiff Cube] | WMS | Shenk, et al. | USGS | Citation: Schenk, Beyer & al., 2018 Schenk, P., Beyer, R., McKinnon, W., Moore, J., Spencer, J., White, O., Singer, K., Nimmo, F., Thomason, C., Lauer, T., Robbins, S., Umurhan, O., Grundy, W., Stern, S., Weaver, H., Young, L., Smith, K. & Olkin, C. (2018). Basins, fractures and volcanoes: Global cartography and topography of Pluto from New Horizons. Icarus, 314. 400 – 433. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2018.06.008 |