Phil Stooke
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Professor Emeritus, University of Western Ontario. Space exploration and planetary cartography, historical and present. A longtime poster on
unmannedspaceflight.com (RIP - but now archived at https://umsfarchive.com/index.php/), now posting content on www.nasaspaceflight.com and https://discord.com/channels/1290524907624464394 as well as here. The Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Professor Emeritus, University of Western Ontario. Space exploration and planetary cartography, historical and present. A longtime poster on unmannedspaceflight.com (RIP - but now archived at https:// umsfarchive.com/index.php/ ), now posting content on www.nasaspaceflight.com and https:// discord.com/channels/129052490 7624464394 as well as here. The Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Professor Emeritus, University of Western Ontario. Space exploration and planetary cartography, historical and present. A longtime poster on unmannedspaceflight.com (RIP - but now archived at https:// umsfarchive.com/index.php/ ), now posting content on www.nasaspaceflight.com and https:// discord.com/channels/129052490 7624464394 as well as here. The Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Professor Emeritus, University of Western Ontario. Space exploration and planetary cartography, historical and present. A longtime poster on unmannedspaceflight.com (RIP - but now archived at https:// umsfarchive.com/index.php/ ), now posting content on www.nasaspaceflight.com and https:// discord.com/channels/129052490 7624464394 as well as here. The Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Professor Emeritus, University of Western Ontario. Space exploration and planetary cartography, historical and present. A longtime poster on unmannedspaceflight.com (RIP - but now archived at https:// umsfarchive.com/index.php/ ), now posting content on www.nasaspaceflight.com and https:// discord.com/channels/129052490 7624464394 as well as here. The Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
And here is the northern hemisphere. I drew this in the polar aspect and reprojected it to cylindrical before adding the bits which extended south of the equator. Next: another comet, but this time with an unusual twist.
Professor Emeritus, University of Western Ontario. Space exploration and planetary cartography, historical and present. A longtime poster on unmannedspaceflight.com (RIP - but now archived at https:// umsfarchive.com/index.php/ ), now posting content on www.nasaspaceflight.com and https:// discord.com/channels/129052490 7624464394 as well as here. The Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Professor Emeritus, University of Western Ontario. Space exploration and planetary cartography, historical and present. A longtime poster on unmannedspaceflight.com (RIP - but now archived at https:// umsfarchive.com/index.php/ ), now posting content on www.nasaspaceflight.com and https:// discord.com/channels/129052490 7624464394 as well as here. The Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
I also made a shaded relief interpretation of Comet Wild 2's nucleus. The difference between this relief drawing (this time made in Photoshop, not by pencil) is the illumination. The photomosaic is mostly one single image with one lighting direction. The relief drawing has lighting uniformly from the east (so in a depression, the east side is in shadow, the west side is bright). Here is a cylindrical version.