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#USGS

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Chris Hayes

I gotta say I really appreciate the amount of effort #Massachusetts has put into offering a good, freely available #GIS system.

#USGS is also good, I'm just noticing that the state-level GIS datasets seem to have the highest resolution data. Fidelity you'd think was only possible from very expensive commercial products.

MassGIS data can be perused here: maps.massgis.digital.mass.gov/
USGS data can be perused here: apps.nationalmap.gov/downloade

nationalparks

Glacier National Park today (Middle Fork of the Flathead River at West Glacier). For more information nps.gov/glac/index.htm and #glacier #interpretation #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #landscapephotography #photography #montana Image credit National Park Service and the Glacier National Park Conservancy #mtwx #spring #trees #river #colors #travel

Canyonlands National Park today. The Canyonlands National Park camera is one of several Regional Dust and Environmental Observation Cameras in the desert southwest. Learn more at nps.gov/cany/index.htm and gec.cr.usgs.gov/gecsc/regwebca and #usgs #geology #airquality #canyonlands #utah #utwx Image credit USGS/USGS American Drylands Project

Doug Bostrom

@GreenFire

There's a big if but a rich payoff, if the bet is good.

"Enhanced Geothermal Systems Electric-Resource Assessment for the Great Basin, Southwestern United States, Burns et al., US. Geological Survey

The authors conducted a provisional assessment of the geothermal-electric resources associated with high-temperature, low-permeability rock formations of the Great Basin, Southwestern United States. If sufficient technological advances to commercialize enhanced geothermal systems occur, then a current best provisional estimate for electric-power generation capacity of 135 gigawatts electric are available from the upper 6 kilometers of the Earth’s crust. This estimate is a potential substantial increase of the installed geothermal electricity-generating capacity from <1 to 10 percent of current total U.S. power production capacity."

Via #USGS, RIP for parts thereof.

#GeothermalEnergy

HT- > @dripping1911

pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2025/3027/fs2

65dBnoise

#NASA's #MMGIS has moved (probably some time ago) to a new dataset prepared by the #USGS which includes areas west of Jezero Crater, which may be where the Mars Sample Return mission (#MSR) could land, if the mission ever takes off.

For those interested in Martian maps and #GIS, here is where to find the new data:

Description PDF:
hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2025
Source (5.1GB, includes raster and DTM):
asc-pds-services.s3.us-west-2.

#Perseverance ##Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

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65dBnoise

#Perseverance appears to be ready for some close examination of the bedrock at its new location at RMC 74.0000.

As with every change of site number, i.e. when drive numbers are reset to 0000 and the x, y, z data zeroed, localizing the rover is more difficult. Here I've done it by manual triangulation, using NAVCAM_RIGHT images whose center lines are seen on the map.

Used #QGIS to draw the map, with data from #NASA's #MMGIS, #HiRISE and #USGS

#Mars2020#Solarocks#Space
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65dBnoise

Moving further to the south, after a quick stop at RMC 73.4346 to capture a couple of SUPERCAM images of a blueish rock.

The new path is a guess.

Processed SUPERCAM_RMI
looking SE (144°) from RMC 73.4146
LMST: 12:46:57

Quickly processed, leveled NAVCAM_RIGHT mosaic
looking ENE (72°) from RMC 73.4738
Sol 1511, LMST: 14:37:30

Originals:
mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-ima
mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-ima

Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise

#QGIS#Perseverance#MMGIS
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