Lunar volcanic feature catalog for Dawn

Kurzfassung

Except for a number of low-resolution full-globe images obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope the surface of Vesta remains largely unknown. New image data from NASA’s Dawn mission that will arrive at asteroid Vesta in July 2011 for a 9 month systematic mapping phase to investigate Vesta’s geology [1]. This proposal of lunar analogues relies on medium to lowresolution image data from the Clementine and Lunar Orbiter missions as well as high-resolution image data obtained from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), Chandrayaan-1 and Kaguya camera experiments that are comparable to the expected Dawn instrument resolutions.