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
We thank you in advance for your eventual support to VMA.
Sorry for my rather poor english
Sincerely yours,
Christian Legrand