TY - GEN
T1 - Google venus
AU - De Paor, Declan G.
AU - Hansen, Vicki L.
AU - Dordevic, Mladen M.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Google Earth includes digital elevation models and surface imagery for the Earth, Moon, and Mars, but not for Venus. To help geoscientists visualize Venusian geology, geophysics, and geodynamics, we have built a "Google Venus" virtual globe on a Google Earth foundation. We present here details of how this was done and offer regional samples to show the power of the virtual globe, combined with space mission imagery, and COLLADA models in displaying surface data and global, crust-to-core cross sections. We show how web data sources can be linked to Venusian locations in an engaging, interactive format. Our approach could be adapted to other planets and moons of the Solar System and to models of exoplanets.
AB - Google Earth includes digital elevation models and surface imagery for the Earth, Moon, and Mars, but not for Venus. To help geoscientists visualize Venusian geology, geophysics, and geodynamics, we have built a "Google Venus" virtual globe on a Google Earth foundation. We present here details of how this was done and offer regional samples to show the power of the virtual globe, combined with space mission imagery, and COLLADA models in displaying surface data and global, crust-to-core cross sections. We show how web data sources can be linked to Venusian locations in an engaging, interactive format. Our approach could be adapted to other planets and moons of the Solar System and to models of exoplanets.
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U2 - 10.1130/2012.2492(27)
DO - 10.1130/2012.2492(27)
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84876801958
SN - 9780813724928
T3 - Special Paper of the Geological Society of America
SP - 367
EP - 382
BT - Google Earth and Virtual Visualizations in Geoscience Education and Research
PB - Geological Society of America
ER -