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New VMA Pro 5 version
on Tuesday, December 29, 2009 - 11:34 AM GMT - 2405 Reads
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Dear colleagues,

We are happy to announce you the release of the new version "Pro" 5.0, another important evolution  of the Virtual Moon Atlas with many new features. It presents :

THE NEW « MAC/OS » AND « LINUX » VERSIONS Awaited since a long time, the revision of the software permits now to propose new « Mac/Os » and « Linux » version of VMA Pro 5.

THE NEW MODULE "ATLUN" ©:

It’s a complete revision of the software with a new graphic engine and a new textures management. It permits now :

- to use digital elevation models (DEM) permitting dynamic shadows on the terminator according to the lunar phases and giving a display very near to the view in the eyepiece

- to use very high resolution textures.

- to view the lunar poles

- to have a really double map window,

- to apply a coordinates grid.

THE NEW « AEROGRAPH WITHOUT ALBEDO » HIGH RESOLUTION TEXTURE : (Resolution about 1500 m/pixel).

THE NEW « LUNAR ORBITER » VERY HIGH RESOLUTION TEXTURE : ( Resolution of about 200 m/pixel ).

FOURTEEN NEW COLORED SCIENTIFIC OVERLAYS :

Clementine Real colors  / Clementine Rock types / Clementine FeO / Kaguya Altimetric / Kaguya Altimetric 2 / Kaguya Uranium / Kaguya Gamma rays / Lunar Prospector Radon / Lunar Prospector Polonium / Lunar Prospector Gadolinium / Lunar Prospector Thorium / Lunar Prospector Titane / Surface temperature / ULCN

2005 Altimetric

THE NEW « LUNAR DOMES » SCIENTIFIC DATABASE : Adapted from ALPO 1976 « Lunar domes » database

THE NEW « CONSOLIDATED LUNAR ATLAS » PICTURES LIBRARIES : (More than 3000 new pictures of lunar formations lighted under several Sun angles).

THE NEW « CONSOLIDATED LUNAR ATLAS » PICTURES LIBRARIES : (About 170 pictures of lunar formations in slanting views).

THE NEW FREELY DOWNLOADABLE POCKETLUN (c) VERSION : IT'S THE POCKET PC VERSION OF VMA

Find all detailed informations about this new release on our Web site :

Dear colleagues,

I am happy, with Patrick Chevalley, to announce you the new version "Pro" 5.0, another important evolution  of the Virtual Moon Atlas with many new features.

It presents :

THE NEW « MAC/OS » AND « LINUX » VERSIONS Awaited since a long time, the revision of the software permits now to propose new « Mac/Os » and « Linux » version of VMA Pro 5.

THE NEW MODULE "ATLUN" ©:

It’s a complete revision of the software with a new graphic engine and a new textures management. It permits now :

- to use digital elevation models (DEM) permitting dynamic shadows on the terminator according to the lunar phases and giving a display very near to the view in the eyepiece

- to use very high resolution textures.

- to view the lunar poles

- to have a really double map window,

- to apply a coordinates grid.

THE NEW « AEROGRAPH WITHOUT ALBEDO » HIGH RESOLUTION TEXTURE : (Resolution about 1500 m/pixel).

THE NEW « LUNAR ORBITER » VERY HIGH RESOLUTION TEXTURE : ( Resolution of about 200 m/pixel ).

FOURTEEN NEW COLORED SCIENTIFIC OVERLAYS :

Clementine Real colors  / Clementine Rock types / Clementine FeO / Kaguya Altimetric / Kaguya Altimetric 2 / Kaguya Uranium / Kaguya Gamma rays / Lunar Prospector Radon / Lunar Prospector Polonium / Lunar Prospector Gadolinium / Lunar Prospector Thorium / Lunar Prospector Titane / Surface temperature / ULCN

2005 Altimetric

THE NEW « LUNAR DOMES » SCIENTIFIC DATABASE : Adapted from ALPO 1976 « Lunar domes » database

THE NEW « CONSOLIDATED LUNAR ATLAS » PICTURES LIBRARIES : (More than 3000 new pictures of lunar formations lighted under several Sun angles).

THE NEW « CONSOLIDATED LUNAR ATLAS » PICTURES LIBRARIES : (About 170 pictures of lunar formations in slanting views).

THE NEW FREELY DOWNLOADABLE POCKETLUN (c) VERSION : IT'S THE POCKET PC VERSION OF VMA

Find all detailed informations about this new release on our Web site :

http://www.ap-i.net/avl/en/start

Maybe you could find interesting to inform your friends of this new available VMA version

Best regards,

Christian Legrand and Patrick Chevalley

 

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