This preliminary mosaic of an Artemis III candidate landing site is composed of images selected to optimize illuminated terrain coverage. As a first step, the thousands of NAC images of the south pole were filtered to the region of interest and divided into square segments along the image track at 20 m/pixel to minimize file sizes and provide flexibility to use only illuminated portions of each image for mosaicking. To determine optimal image ordering, we used sub-solar longitudes to guide the image selection to ensure local areas had consistent lighting geometries. For a first pass at offset correction, we used the results of aligning most of the LROC NAC images poleward of 84° south as described in Wagner et al. 2022 (LPSC LIII, Abstract no. 2573). Each image segment was then map-projected at native image resolution (1 m/px) and images with sub-solar longitudes within 10° bins were mosaicked together. As a second pass at offset correction, we compared the sub-solar longitude mosaics to the LOLA shaded relief product (5 m pixel scale). The final mosaic is a 1 m/pixel 16-bit (unsigned word) GeoTiff masked along boundaries between images with different lighting and blended for a more “seamless” mosaic. This mosaic is composed of 256 NACs (1135 image segments) and 6 bins of sub-solar longitude. We estimate the absolute positional accuracy to be 5 to 20 m.
When citing this product, use the following reference: Henriksen, M. R., Burnette, S.R., Brown, H.M., Wagner, R.V., Robinson, M.S., Collins, W.M., Grieser, S.A., Boyd, A.K. (2023), Optimized Illuminated Terrain Coverage of the Candidate Artemis III Landing Sites with LROC NAC Controlled Mosaics. European Lunar Symposium, https://sservi.directus.app/assets/2483b7e0-a336-443d-8739-3d5f4756e1fb.pdf, pg 134-135.
For more information about this and other RDRs, see the RDR Software Interface Specification (SIS) at http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/data/LRO-L-LROC-5-RDR-V1.0/LROLRC_2001/DOCUMENT/RDRSIS.PDF.
PDS PRODUCT NAMING CONVENTION
The PRODUCT_ID naming convention for LROC NAC ROIs is:
NAC_ROI_xxxxxxxxSSv_AyyyBzzzz[_##M].IMG where
Example: NAC_ROI_APOLLO15LOC_E252N0018.IMG is a NAC ROI of the Apollo 15 landing site with low-Sun. C indicates it's the third low-Sun mosaic of the Apollo 15 landing site produced. This mosaic is centered at latitude=25.2N, longitude=1.8E and is in equirectangular projection.
RDR Name | NAC_ROI_MTMOUTONLO1_P854S0353 | |||
Site Name | Nobile Rim 1 and Mons Mouton (Leibnitz Beta Plateau) | |||
Center Lat | -85.4 | |||
Center Lon | 35.3 | |||
Pixel Scale | 1.00 m/px | |||
Image Start Time (UTC) | 2009-09-30 18:06:26.319+00 | |||
Image Stop Time (UTC) | 2022-04-16 08:40:28.881+00 | |||
# Images | 256 | |||
# Segments | 1135 | |||
Incidence | Low Sun | |||
Minimum Latitude | -86.07 | |||
Maximum Latitude | -84.82 | |||
Minimum Longitude | 27.29 | |||
Maximum Longitude | 43.23 |
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M108973252R | -87.29 | 35.90 | 86° | 1.67 m/px |
M108993634L | -87.25 | 32.76 | 86° | 1.68 m/px |
M109000415L | -86.56 | 32.07 | 85° | 1.68 m/px |
M109000415R | -86.55 | 30.47 | 85° | 1.68 m/px |
M109014017L | -87.31 | 27.46 | 86° | 1.68 m/px |
M1103404357L | -86.25 | 39.94 | 85° | 1.01 m/px |
M1103404357R | -86.27 | 38.87 | 85° | 1.02 m/px |
M1103432901L | -84.96 | 30.63 | 84° | 0.99 m/px |
M1103440053L | -85.38 | 37.79 | 84° | 0.99 m/px |
M1103440053R | -85.40 | 37.00 | 84° | 0.98 m/px |
M1106669267L | -85.71 | 37.26 | 91° | 1.18 m/px |
M1106669267R | -85.74 | 37.88 | 91° | 1.17 m/px |
M1106683561L | -85.62 | 36.04 | 91° | 1.16 m/px |
M1106683561R | -85.64 | 36.64 | 91° | 1.16 m/px |
M111336325L | -86.68 | 38.02 | 85° | 1.69 m/px |
M111336325R | -86.68 | 36.32 | 86° | 1.69 m/px |
M111343107L | -86.30 | 36.64 | 85° | 1.70 m/px |
M111343107R | -86.30 | 35.10 | 85° | 1.69 m/px |
M111377064L | -86.83 | 28.19 | 86° | 1.70 m/px |
M111377064R | -86.82 | 26.40 | 86° | 1.69 m/px |
M111383847L | -86.48 | 27.13 | 85° | 1.70 m/px |
M111383847R | -86.47 | 25.52 | 85° | 1.69 m/px |
M1123112410L | -85.87 | 38.46 | 90° | 1.21 m/px |
M1123112410R | -85.84 | 37.77 | 90° | 1.21 m/px |
M1123119505L | -86.62 | 28.22 | 91° | 1.21 m/px |
M1123119505R | -86.58 | 27.49 | 91° | 1.21 m/px |
M1123133730L | -86.63 | 27.02 | 91° | 1.21 m/px |
M1123133730R | -86.59 | 26.28 | 91° | 1.21 m/px |
M1123147963L | -86.30 | 30.33 | 91° | 1.20 m/px |
M1123147963R | -86.27 | 29.63 | 91° | 1.20 m/px |
M1123155099L | -85.18 | 39.33 | 90° | 1.19 m/px |
M1123155099R | -85.16 | 38.74 | 90° | 1.19 m/px |
M1123183548L | -85.15 | 35.76 | 90° | 1.17 m/px |
M1123183548R | -85.13 | 35.22 | 90° | 1.17 m/px |
M1123190634L | -86.34 | 24.76 | 91° | 1.16 m/px |
M1123190634R | -86.31 | 24.11 | 91° | 1.16 m/px |
M1127037718R | -86.80 | 42.06 | 89° | 1.24 m/px |
M1131759693L | -85.85 | 34.19 | 85° | 1.23 m/px |
M1131759693R | -85.83 | 34.98 | 85° | 1.23 m/px |
M1137261617R | -85.12 | 39.58 | 91° | 1.20 m/px |
M1137268733L | -84.94 | 39.34 | 91° | 1.20 m/px |
M1153679433R | -84.61 | 48.28 | 90° | 1.30 m/px |
M1153693677L | -84.47 | 48.13 | 90° | 1.30 m/px |
M1153693677R | -84.43 | 47.47 | 90° | 1.30 m/px |
M1153707923L | -84.20 | 47.82 | 90° | 1.30 m/px |
M1153707923R | -84.16 | 47.18 | 90° | 1.30 m/px |
M1153722151L | -84.71 | 42.68 | 90° | 1.31 m/px |
M1153722151R | -84.67 | 41.99 | 90° | 1.30 m/px |
M1153736395L | -84.53 | 42.24 | 90° | 1.31 m/px |
M1153736395R | -84.49 | 41.56 | 90° | 1.31 m/px |
M1153750644L | -84.12 | 43.00 | 90° | 1.31 m/px |
M1157665704L | -85.91 | 40.26 | 89° | 1.33 m/px |
M1157665704R | -85.87 | 41.24 | 89° | 1.33 m/px |
M1157679918L | -84.83 | 32.37 | 89° | 1.33 m/px |
M1157679918R | -84.80 | 33.18 | 89° | 1.33 m/px |
M1157687019L | -83.96 | 28.23 | 89° | 1.33 m/px |
M1157694174L | -85.80 | 35.74 | 89° | 1.33 m/px |
M1157694174R | -85.76 | 36.69 | 89° | 1.33 m/px |
M1157701256L | -84.01 | 26.43 | 89° | 1.33 m/px |
M1157701256R | -83.98 | 27.14 | 89° | 1.32 m/px |
M1157708411L | -85.85 | 34.23 | 89° | 1.33 m/px |
M1157708411R | -85.81 | 35.18 | 89° | 1.33 m/px |
M1157715494R | -84.05 | 25.38 | 89° | 1.32 m/px |
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M1162378372L | -85.38 | 37.33 | 85° | 1.34 m/px |
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M1162385464L | -84.08 | 30.75 | 84° | 1.33 m/px |
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M1162413988L | -86.57 | 42.29 | 87° | 1.33 m/px |
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M1188363389L | -86.58 | 42.64 | 90° | 1.14 m/px |
M1188363389R | -86.55 | 43.19 | 90° | 1.13 m/px |
M1188370422L | -86.77 | 44.70 | 90° | 1.13 m/px |
M1188370422R | -86.73 | 45.24 | 90° | 1.13 m/px |
M1193030007L | -85.33 | 36.03 | 86° | 1.15 m/px |
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M194030650R | -86.27 | 32.34 | 91° | 1.24 m/px |
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