Mars MGS MOLA Elevation Model 463m (MEGDR) survey collection

Mars MGS MOLA Digital Elevation Model (DEM) is based on data from the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA; Smith and others, 2001), an instrument on NASA's Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft (Albee and others, 2001). The DEM represents more than 600 million measurements gathered between 1999 and 2001, adjusted for consistency (Neumann and others, 2001, 2003) and converted to planetary radii. These have been converted to elevations above the areoid as determined from a Martian gravity field solution GMM-2B (Lemoine and others, 2001), truncated to degree and order 50, and oriented according to current standards. The average accuracy of each point is originally ~100 meters in horizontal position and ~1 meter in radius (Neumann and others, 2001). However, the total elevation uncertainty is at least ±3 m due to the global error in the areoid (±1.8 meters according to Lemoine and others [2001]) and regional uncertainties in its shape (G.A. Neumann, written commun., 2002).Original acknowledgement for data: USGS, C.Marmo (FITS mapping)

Identifier
Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/CDS/P/Mars/MGS-MOLA-DEM
Related Identifier https://alasky.cds.unistra.fr/Planets/Mars_MGS_MOLA_DEM
Metadata Access http://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/pmh/pubreg.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_b2find&identifier=ivo://CDS/P/Mars/MGS-MOLA-DEM
Provenance
Creator Fernique P.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2017
Rights This HiPS is distributed under ODbL license by Unistra/CNRS; https://cds.unistra.fr/aladin-org/licences_aladin.html
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Representation
Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Natural Sciences; Physics; Solar System Astronomy
Temporal Coverage 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z 2001-12-31T00:00:00Z