{"id":525,"date":"2018-10-02T05:13:31","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T09:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/langa.com\/?p=525"},"modified":"2018-09-28T15:22:38","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T19:22:38","slug":"cool-site-digital-museum-of-planetary-mapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/langa.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/02\/cool-site-digital-museum-of-planetary-mapping\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool site: Digital Museum of Planetary Mapping"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Digital Museum of Planetary Mapping<\/a> houses some 2000 examples of humankind’s best attempts to map our solar system, from the earliest pre-telescope hand-drawn maps to NASA’s latest high-resolution offerings.<\/p>\n

Examples:<\/p>\n

400 years ago:<\/strong> “The oldest map available on the website is a sketch made between 1600 and 1603 of the moon\u2019s surfaces, drawn without the aid of a telescope…”
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Today:<\/strong> NASA, 1979:
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More info:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/planetarymapping.wordpress.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/universalnewsupdate.com\/travel-through-space-and-time-with-400-years-of-planetary-maps\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Permalink: https:\/\/wp.me\/paaiox-8t<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Ask me anything! Click the CONTACT<\/a> link on any page.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Digital Museum of Planetary Mapping houses some 2000 examples of humankind’s best attempts to map our solar system, from the earliest pre-telescope hand-drawn maps to NASA’s latest high-resolution offerings. Examples: 400 years ago: “The oldest map available on the website is a sketch made between 1600 and 1603 of the moon\u2019s surfaces, drawn without…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-site","category-science-and-tech"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paaiox-8t","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2048,"url":"https:\/\/langa.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/16\/a-4000-year-old-customer-complaint-in-the-original-cuneiform\/","url_meta":{"origin":525,"position":0},"title":"A 4,000 year-old customer complaint\u2026 in the original cuneiform.","author":"Fred Langa","date":"2019-02-16","format":false,"excerpt":"Some things never change: Linguists have translated a clay cuneiform tablet from the city of Ur, circa 1750BCE. 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