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nobody to see

If you like space, you'll love my the 12,000 billion light-year map of clusters, superclusters and voids. Find the biggest nothings in Boötes and Eridanus.The largest map there is shows the location of voids and galaxy superclusters in our visible universe.

menu moon solar system the sky, northern hemisphere the sky, southern hemisphere

She looks like the Moon

and I can be the world

The Moon, near side

Expect stunning vistas, infinite line of sight and zero fresh air. Bring a space suit.

The map is based on the 3.6 gigapixel image of the near side of the moon taken by the Lunar Reconnaisance Orbiter Camera. Topological annotations taken from Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN). The resolution is 100 meters per pixel.

Martin Krzywinski @MKrzywinski mkweb.bcgsc.ca

▲ Icons and typography for lunar topological features.

menu 3.6 gigapixel map What's on the map References

photometry

Sato, H., M.S. Robinson, B. Hapke, B.W. Denevi and A.K. Boyd (2104) Resolved Hapke parameter maps of the Moon, Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 119, 1775-1805,

mosaic production

Wagner, R. V. Speyerer, E. J. Robinson, M. S., LROC Team, 2015, New Mosaicked Data Products from the LROC Team, 46th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (poster)

original mosaic

Speyerer, E.J., Robinson, M.S., Denevi, B.W., and the LROC Science Team, 2011, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera global morphological map of the Moon, Lunar Planetary Science Conference, Abstract #2387.

mission

Robinson, M. S., et al. (2010), Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) instrument overview, Space Sci. Rev., 150(1), 81–124,

nomenclature

Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN), International Astronomical Union (IAU)