We are living in a golden age for space exploration, both human and robotic. Several nations maintain a robust planetary exploration program delivering a great amount of highly complex datasets. These data can be used to produced geologic maps, which are key to interpret the geologic history of any planetary body, assess its surface, subsurface nature and natural resources. Planmap Stories let you navigate those maps and the process of map making itself, with the words or voice of actual mappers, and access to the data they used.
Storymaps are just map-based storytelling. They can help describing through space and time the nature or changes of a certain area.
Planmap stories focus in particular on the nature and evolution over geologic timescales of planetary surfaces, how orbital and rover-based geological reconnaissance and mapping are performed and how different can be the units cropping out on a planet, or the Moon.
More information on Planmap is available on our main web page, details on our technical wiki.
Planmap mapping products are available via our data portal and data directory.
If you want to learn more about the behind-the-scenes of Planmap storymaps, please check our storymap GitHub repository.