Odyssey Imager Starts Mapping Today

Bamfarooni writes: "The THEMIS thermal infrared and visible imaging spectrometer aboard the Odyssey spacecraft successfully turned on today and started its mapping mission. Once data starts coming back, images will be released directly to the web on a daily basis." Here's a link to more on the history and goals of the project.

Comments

When do we get this for Earth?

[thesupraman]

With all the 'public' money spent on space research, I wonder when we will start to see decent data available for the earth?

Yes, I know about terraserver, which is rather pathetic outside the US.

We know the planet has been mapped (rather a few times I bet), but many goverments seem to like to keep that data 'private' and sell it off for LARGE amounts of money.

I bet a lot of us could find fantastic uses for even 100m per value topographical data for the whole planet, not just the bits we are 'allowed' access to.

And please no one tell me it's for security reasons, as often the best data can be accessed for the 'secure' regions (ie: most of the US is easy, but try and get pitcairn island).

Imaging the fun of exploring a whole virtual planet, admitedly not up close, but there is a lot of truely wonderful topography to our planet.

Hey check this out!

[Jweb6975]

This article is about a mission to make a topographical map of the earth.
Mapping the Earth