Notices by Phil Stooke (philstooke@mastodon.social)

China's Chang'e 2 spacecraft mapped the Moon in support of later landings including a 7 m/pixel global photomosaic. Later it was redirected to fly past Toutatis. This is a composite of several images taken by a small monitoring camera. There are a few craters but as you can see most of the surface is undulating but not obviously cratered. The image is courtesy CNSA who luckily have adopted basically the same image use policy as NASA.

Let's look at those poles. The polar strips of the cylindrical relief map of asteroid Itokawa were projected into polar azimuthal projections and then images were mapped onto that base. Here is the north pole. #maps

Here is an image of asteroid 243 Ida with a lat-long grid added. The shape model was provided by Peter Thomas. My friend Maxim Nyrtsov was visiting and helped digitize the grid intersections and reproject them to intersections on a rectangular grid to make a photomosaic.