MOLA: The New Approach for Mars Global Cartography

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Jan 1999

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999stin...0074061d&link_type=abstract

Technical Report, Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA United States

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Laser Altimeters, Mapping, Mars Exploration, Telemetry, Celestial Geodesy, Longitude, Radii, Mars Global Surveyor

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The MGS Orbiter is carrying the high-precision Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) which, when combined with telemetered latitude data, provides a tie between inertial space and Mars-fixed coordinates to an accuracy of 100 m in latitude/longitude and 10 m in radius (1 sigma), orders of magnitude more accurate than previous global geodetic/ cartographic control data. Over the 2 year MGS mission lifetime, it is expected that over 30,000 MOLA Global Cartographic Control Points will be produced to form the basis for new and re-derived map and geodetic products, key to the analysis of existing and evolving MGS data as well as future Mars exploration.

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