{"id":5315,"date":"2012-04-10T06:53:25","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T10:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2012\/04\/new_moon_globe_released\/"},"modified":"2017-10-19T19:27:21","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T23:27:21","slug":"new-moon-globe-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2012\/04\/new-moon-globe-released\/","title":{"rendered":"New Moon Globe Released"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Moon Calling it “the first entirely new globe of the lunar surface in more than 40 years,” Sky and Telescope<\/cite> has announced<\/a> a new Moon globe<\/a> based on Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter imagery. Replogle’s Moon globe<\/a> has been the standard for decades, but it’s based on 1960s-era charts and, as I said in my review three years ago<\/a>, doesn’t have a lot of contrast and doesn’t look much like the Moon. Mind you, the new globe costs almost twice as much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Calling it “the first entirely new globe of the lunar surface in more than 40 years,” Sky and Telescope has announced a new Moon globe based on Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter imagery. Replogle’s Moon globe has… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[26,63],"class_list":["post-5315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-astronomy","tag-globes","tag-moon","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1836160,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/01\/moon-lidar\/","url_meta":{"origin":5315,"position":0},"title":"Moon Lidar","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"24 January 2025","format":"link","excerpt":"Screenshot (Hobu) Moon Lidar is a visualization of some six billion measurements from the LRO\u2019s Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter produced by software consultancy Hobu. 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