Lunar topography

[David Given]

So I want to terraform the moon.

As one of the major steps is to deposit a very large number of cubic
kilometres of water on it to act as a thermal buffer, I would like to
calculate where the coastlines are going to be so I know where to put my
house.

NASA have a nice set of topographical data from the Clementine mission
that I can download:

ftp://pds-geosciences.wustl.edu/lunar01/clem1-gravity-topo-v1/cl_xxxx/ima
ges/

However, the baseline for this data is a theoretical spheroid based on
the lunar surface. The moon's gravity is so irregular that the shape of
the water won't match the shape of the spheroid. Right now my model is
going to have all the water on Farside and Nearside as being a huge
mountain.

Clementine provides quite a lot of abstract gravitational data
describing the shape of the moon's gravitational field. Unfortunately I
don't have the background or the knowledge to do anything with this
information.

What I'd really like is a set of lunar topographic information
normalised to some theoretical gravitational isosurface. That would let
me very easily pour water onto my model and look at coastlines. Does
anyone know if such a thing exists, and where I can get it? Failing
that, can anyone suggest how I might be able to turn Clementine's
gravitational data into something I can use?

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[Chris]

With all that water and stellar energy source it is probably teeming with
"giant flying dinosaurs" or something!

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