Mercury – Catalog of Planetary Maps

Geologic terrain map of Mercury (1975)

The first geologic map of Mercury Trask NJ, Guest JE 1975 Preliminary Geologic Terrain Map of Mercury. Journal of Geopgys. Res. 80 17 2461-, 2 maps on color plate 1a, 1b

Topographic map of Mercury with names

This map is a side-product of a Globe of Mercury produced for the Stamp Museum (Bélyegmúzeum) of Budapest. Cartographers Gede M, Hargitai H. Date: 2016 Pdf version (searchable): Equatorial North Polar South Polar Gridded Equatorial Equatorial view, Grid, full resolution

Early maps of Mercury

A summary of Mercury mapping, early drawings reprojected uniformly into Mollweide projection. The last map is based on photographic studies in 1942-1948. (Note: This caption wronly identifies Venus as the mapped object. It is Mercury). 1942-1948 Dollfus, A 1889 Schiaparelli Astr. Nach. 1889 p 246 1897 Lowell Mem. Amer. o Arts and Sciences 1897 […]

Pic du Midi drawings and map of Mercury

Upper row: 1942, Lyot – 25 drawings, 36 inch refractor, 300-500x magnification. Lower row: 1950, A Dollfus, 60-inch refractor, 750-900x magnification Lyot and Camichel, 1942: Map from 12 composites. 23 markings were measured. Source: A. Dollfus: Visual and photographic studies off planets at the Pic du Midi. In: Planets and Satellites, GP Kuiper and B […]

USGS Globe Series

USGS Globe series, all globes are 1:32,000,000

Topographic Roughness of Mercury and the Moon

Cartographer: Kokhanov AA Editors: Kreslavsky MA, Karachevtseva IP Publisher: Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography MIIGAiK Date: 2014 Scale: 1:10M Roughness baseline is 2.8 km. Source of data: MLA/MDIS

Lowell’s map of Mercury (1902)

Source: P. Lowell: New observations of the planet Mercury. Cambridge, J. Wilson and son, 1902. In Memoirs of the American academy of arts and sciences, n.8., v.12, no.4 The book also includes tens of drawings of Mercury. According to the author, the planet is “covered with long narrow markings best explained as the result of […]

Shogakukan’s Map of Mercury (2005)

Title: STAR ATLAS 21 Authors: Hayashi K, Watanabe J, Ushiyama, T, Thukimoto K. Language of nomenclature: Japanese Language of explanations: Japanese Map type: False color Photomosaic Publication Date: 2005 Publication Place: Japan Publisher: Shogakukan Inc Note: This map of part of the Publisher’s Star Atlas ISBN 4-09-526075-5

Morphologic provinces of Mercury (1981)

Karta-skhema tipov mestnostey Merkuriya KP Florenskiy, AT Bazilevskiy, GA Burba, VP Volkovc AV Ivanov, RO Kuzmin, MA Nazarov, OV Nikolaeva, AA Pronim, OD Rodye, OI Yakovlev, AA Yarosevskiy; Ed. VL Barsukov Otserki Sravnitel’noj Planetologii Nauka, Moskva, 1981. Vernadski Institute

MIIGAiK’s Map of Mercury (1992)

Source: Bugaevsky L.M., Shingareva K.B., Krasnopevtseva B.V et al. Atlas Planet Zemnoi Gruppy i ih Sputnikov («Атлас планет земной группы и их спутников».). MIIGAiK, 1992. Moscow Scale: 1:35 000 000 Note: This is a geologo-morphologic map. The Atlas contains several additional thematic maps of Mercury The online version of the Atlas is available at http://www.planetmaps.ru/ru/projects/onlineatlas […]

Dresden Map of Mercury (2005)

Title: Merkur Map editor: M.F.Buchroithner (Dresden University of Technology) Map consultants: B. V. Krasnopevtseva, K. B. Shingareva, Moscow State University for Geodesy and Cartography (MIIGAiK). Cartographers: R. Franke, R. Pässler, M. Tusche, Dr. O. Wälder Reference: Kira B. Shingareva, Jim Zimbelman, Manfred F. Buchroithner and Henrik I. Hargitai (2005): The Realization of ICA Commission Projects […]

Map of Mercury, Bilingual Edition (2004)

Title: A Merkúr/Mercurius/Mercury Map editor: H. Hargitai Shade relief base map editors: B. V. Krasnopevtseva, K. B. Shingareva, Moscow State University for Geodesy and Cartography (MIIGAiK). Language of nomenclature: Latin Language of explanations: Hungarian, English Map type: Colored Shaded Relief and Albedo Projection: Lambert Transversal Equivalent Azimuthal Projection First Publication Date: 2004 Scale: 1:17 800 000 […]