{"id":143719,"date":"2022-08-07T06:02:30","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T11:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/new-mapping-method-could-aid-exploration-of-moon-mars-and-beyond"},"modified":"2022-08-07T06:02:30","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T11:02:30","slug":"new-mapping-method-could-aid-exploration-of-moon-mars-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/new-mapping-method-could-aid-exploration-of-moon-mars-and-beyond","title":{"rendered":"New mapping method could aid exploration of moon, Mars and beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-mapping-method-could-aid-exploration-of-moon-mars-and-beyond3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers find mathematical trick to combining planetary surface data.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Researchers have discovered a method for making high-resolution maps of planetary surfaces like the moon\u2019s by combining available imagery and topography data.<\/p>\n<p>Mapping the complex and diverse surface of a world like the moon in detailed resolution is challenging because laser altimeters, which measure changes in altitudes, operate at much lower resolution than cameras. And although photographs offer a sense of surface features, it\u2019s difficult to translate images into specific heights and depths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers find mathematical trick to combining planetary surface data. Researchers have discovered a method for making high-resolution maps of planetary surfaces like the moon\u2019s by combining available imagery and topography data. Mapping the complex and diverse surface of a world like the moon in detailed resolution is challenging because laser altimeters, which measure changes in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965,2229,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","category-mathematics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}