PlanetaryGIS.org is a website created for, and maintained by, the planetary community with an interest in landing site characterization and selection. We aim to provide central location where planetary scientists and engineers can share news, ideas, initiatives, tools, datasets and documentation.
The development and maintenance of PlanetaryGIS is currently funded by Europlanet (JRA1) and focuses on exploration missions to Mars and the Moon. If you are new to landing-site selection, be sure to check the documentation. We invite everybody interested in planetary science and future space exploration missions to use and contribute to PlanetaryGIS.org. To contribute to and edit the site you need to register an account.
The European Union is going to take a more defining role in shaping the space policy in Europe. The EU policy makers are now asking the public their views on on the adequacy and the scope of possible EU measures in the field of the protection of space infrastructures and space exploration.
Posted at: 13th January 2011 by in All
The EUROPLANET Workshop at the Lorentz Center and Conference at ESTEC "Landing Sites for Exploration Missions" is now complete. Program
Posted at: 22nd December 2010 by in Website
During the Landing Site for Exploration Missions workshop 17-21 January 2011 in Leiden, The Netherlands, this website will be used as a test bed for how to use new technologies in the process of landing-site characterization and selection. A part of this functionality can now be used in the forum.
Posted at: 21st December 2010 by in Website
Home made geographic data sets of Mars (maps, enhanced images, geophysical data) can be viewed in the framework of the Mars section of GoogleEarth. Just click and view !
Posted at: 5th August 2010 by in Website
Images from the Shallow Radar (SHARAD) on board the NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) are available online at the Planetary Data System website. Through PlanetaryGIS.org it is now possible to visualize these radargram images as vertical profiles within Google Earth.
Posted at: 23rd March 2009 by in Website