Compiled the most complete three-dimensional map of the Moon

The specialists of the German Aerospace Center have created a detailed three-dimensional model of the natural satellite of the Earth, covering more than 98% of the lunar surface.
To generate three-dimensional model that reflects many of the details of the relief, the researchers treated 70 000 stereokadrov Selena captured U.S. satellite LRO from a height of 50 kilometers, passes Membrana.
Many neighboring snimkluov was compared pixel by pixel, taking into account the position of the device at the time of shooting and the direction of the line of sight. As a result, 40 computers, two weeks of computer time amounted to a digital model of the lunar topography of the 100 billion points.
Map of 100 GLD (Global Lunar Digital Terrain Model) shows the height of the moon in 100 meters. It is further verified by the testimony of the laser altimeter on board all the same LRO. However, although the latter gives very accurate values ​​of heights, it covers the entire surface is not a satellite, but the photography - almost the entire.
Scientists have yet to be clarifying GLD 100, since the LRO continues to send new images of the moon and the data from their devices. In the meantime, using the new model, the researchers created a video ... Among other things, it shows some of the landing sites, ...
But they do not, of course, are the target of the project. Detailed three-dimensional map of the moon to help professionals in selecting sites for future visits of unmanned and manned missions.