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Lunar and Planetary Institute

Some positive coments about the work done in my library by my co-workers. From the Lunar Picture of the Day website

Without saying a word, a treasury of lunar maps has appeared online. The Lunar Atlases section of the Lunar & Planetary Institute website has been an invaluable resource for Lunar Orbiter IV, Consolidated Lunar Atlas and Apollo handheld images. On June 24, the good people at LPI added digitized versions of various lunar maps. So far, the star of the site is the collection of 44 classic Lunar Aeronautical Charts (LACs) covering the central region of the lunar nearside. These are available in three file sizes: the 108 kB browse image reproduced here, an 877 kB high-res JPEG version, and a monstrous 170 MB full-res TIFF version! The hi-res version is almost good enough to read the contours - for example, it looks like the Straight Wall is measured as 410 m high; but I hesitate to start downloading the TIFF file to confirm that number! The website also includes two 10,000,000 charts, but what is really exciting is that they will be adding the 1:250,000 Lunar Topographic Orthophotomaps (LTO ). This is the largest scale and highest resolution lunar map series ever made (don't hassle me about Apollo landing maps, etc - they are different!) and have been widely unavailable for decades! All praise LPI!

We now have the LM series and metrics available as well.

- Lpi Oai
The Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI : MPOW) now has a static OAI file thanks to the folks at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. We have included in the file all LPI resources available as full-text no matter where they exist on the Web....

- Lunar Maps
Some more lunar maps have been scanned and made available on the Web by the Lunar and Planetary Institute (MPOW).The Lunar Equatorial Zone Mosaics (LEMC) Series four sheets by the U.S. Army Topographic Command from the late 1960s are 1:2,500,000 Mercator...

- Lpi Contribution Series
The contribution series at the Lunar and Planetary Institute now has an RSS feed.To document the activities of the visiting and staff scientists and other work supported by the Institute, this formal series called "Lunar and Planetary Institute Contributions",...

- Rss Feed At The Lpi
We now have an RSS feed for our Lunar and Planetary Information Bulletin. This is something I've been suggesting for quite some time. I hope it is the start of a trend here at the Lunar and Planetary Institute. RSS...

- Lunar Maps
Nothing to do with cataloging, a project from where I work, the Lunar & Planetary Institute. There is now an update to the Digital Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon. Annotations for each Atlas image have been added as well as some improved...

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