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Digitizing the Ronald Greeley Slide Collection David A. Williams and David M. Nelson School of Earth & Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. For more information, email: [email protected] Summary Examples of the Greeley Slide Collection • ASU Regent’s Professor Ronald Greeley (1939-2011) studied ter- restrial volcanic and aeolian features as analogs to those discover- ed on the Moon, Mars, Venus, and Io from the early NASA missions • Between the late 1960s to the early 2000s, he compiled a collection of ~14,435 35mm slides of Earth’s geologic features, as well as of images of planetary surfaces from early missions and a variety of mission results • We received a grant from the NASA Planetary Data Archiving, Res- toration, and Tools (PDART) program for one year, to digitize this slide collection, develop PDS4 labels, and place them online for wider community access and use • The first four slide sets have been digitized, and are on line at: Laboratory Experiments: http://rpif.asu.edu/greeley_slide_collection/ Above: Photographic montages of impact cra- tering experiments into water-saturated materi- Examples of the Greeley Slide Collection als. These early experiments were attempts to understand formation of what are now called Laboratory Experiments: pedestal craters and fluidized ejecta blankets on Above: Polyethylene Glycol (PEG) wax used to simulate a Mars. From 1981. viscous lava filling a large lunar impact basin model, 1980. Below, Left & Right: Montage of experiment photos testing variations in effusion rate and topography on wax flow. From Greeley and Womer, Proc. LPSC 12B, 1981. Aerial Photographs: Procedure Above, Left: Aratus Crater, CA 1975: Lunar rille analog. • Digitize the 14,435 slides of the Greeley Collection, sheet by sheet, by DigMyPics.com (Gilbert, AZ). Above, Right: King’s Bowl, ID 1968: Lunar mare analog. • Each slide is cleaned, digitized at 4000 dpi as TIFFs, with manual color and exposure correction (if needed). Total cost to digitize the collection is ~$9,300. Images delivered on a 1 terrabyte hard drive. • Co-I David Nelson will create PDS4 labels for each slide, including any info written on each slide. • Slides will be delivered in groups related by topic/location to the PDS Geosciences Node who will oversee peer review. • After peer review, and corrections if required, images posted on website of the Ronald Greeley Center for Planetary Studies, the NASA Regional Planetary Image Facility at ASU. • The RGCPS acts as a remote hub for the PDS Geosciences Node, acting as a site for other collections: E.g., Mars Analog Field Site, Amboy Crater (CA) collection: https://rpif.asu.edu/fieldimgs_amboy_crater/ Aerial Photographs: Above, Left: Amboy dunes, CA 1976: Martian analog. Proof-of-Concept Slide Sets Online Above, Right: Pt. Barrow, AK 2003: Europa analog. • We digitized several rare slide sets at request of the NASA History Office, and we have already placed them on line (without PDS labels) as indica- ted: 1) Pioneer 11 at Saturn (LPI slide set, circa 1980): https://rpif.asu.edu/slides_pioneer11/ 2) Future Planetary Mission Concepts, artwork (various),1977-2003: https://rpif.asu.edu/slides_mission_concepts/ 3) Soviet Venera 15-16 orbiter images of Venus (circa 1983): Old Mission Results: https://rpif.asu.edu/slides_venera15-16/ Field Photographs: Above: Ti content & model ages for lunar maria, Galileo Above, Left: Sulfur flow, Mauna Loa, HI 1983: Io analog. 4) NASA JPL Marsokhod rover tests at Kilauea volcano, Hawaii (1995): Earth-Moon Flyby 1, Dec. 1990. Above, Right: Industrial sulfur flow, TX 1986: Io analog. https://rpif.asu.edu/slides_marsokhod/ .