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Data credits

This site uses open data. Licence wording is taken from the v1 provenance record and is still to be checked against each catalogue page.

Earth

  • Elevation: SRTM (CGIAR-CSI version) and the Copernicus DEM GLO30 beyond its coverage (attribution to DLR and Airbus).
  • Land cover and vegetation gates: MODIS MCD12Q1 and MOD13A2 (NASA LP DAAC), read through Google Earth Engine.
  • Air density: the NASA Glenn atmosphere model.
  • India outline for labels, and region names (deserts, plateaus, ranges and populated places): Natural Earth, public domain. The outline is not an official map.

Moon

  • LOLA south-polar elevation and permanently shadowed region maps (NASA PGDA; Barker et al., Planetary Science Journal).
  • Lighting and shadow statistics for the two targets: Glaser et al.

Mars

  • MOLA elevation (USGS Astrogeology).
  • Jezero thermal inertia and the Mars Climate Database: used to set target values, not scored.
  • Solar constants and atmosphere: NASA Mars fact sheet and NASA Glenn Mars model. Jezero location: Grant et al.