The Collection

Shaded Relief map of Mars, with nomenclature

Prepared under JPL contract WO-8122 1:25M Mercator projection Preliminary map made from Mariner 9 data. Topographic interpretation by PM Bridges, JL Inge. USGS October 1973 Atlas of Mars MM 25M IR Maps provided courtesy of the USGS Flagstaff Library.

Topographic map of Mars

A Shaded relief map of Mars. Map provided courtesy of the USGS Flagstaff Library.

Meridiani Sinus Quadrangle

USGS, JPL, Caltech, NASA Mercator Projection Directed by BM Batson Airbush rendetion: PM Bridges Albedo interpretation: JL Inge April 1971 Map provided courtesy of the USGS Flagstaff Library.

The Moon through the eyepiece

Aero-Space Laboratories, Missile Division, North American Aviation Inc. Map provided courtesy of the USGS Flagstaff Library.

North American Aviation map of Mars

The Planet Mars North American Aviation, Inc. Space and Information Systems Division Map provided courtesy of the USGS Flagstaff Library.

NASA Mars Chart 1970 (Mariner 6-7 results)

1:25M US Army Topographic Command, Washington, D.C. Advisors: Merton E Davies, JC Robinson, Bradford A Smith and the Mariner 6 and 7 Television Experiment Team. Nomenclature: 1958 IAU 1970 Note the handwritten notes of the Tharsis Montes. The map was drawn by pencil and charcoal, by Charles Cross (Morton 2002:50) Morton O 2002 Mapping Mars. […]

Mariner 69 Mars Chart

Prepared under the direction of the Department of Defense, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center, US Air Force for NASA Control: EC Slipher, Gerard de Vaucouleurs, JPL. Source: drawings of 1958. 1:25M 1967 Map provided courtesy of the USGS Flagstaff Library.

MM 71 Mars Planning Chart

Albedo maps and map with nomenclature Based on Earth based observations 1941-58 and Mariner VI and VII oobservations. Cartographer: James Roth under the direction of Gerard de Vaucouleurs, University of Texas, Austin, TX. Printed by JPL 1971 for the Mariner Mars 1971 Project. Map provided courtesy of the USGS Flagstaff Library.

Albedo maps of Lowell Observatory

Albedo features derived from Earth based International Planetary Patrol photographs selected from the collection at the Planetary Research Center of Lowell Observatory. Published by Planetary Research Center, Lowell Observatory, Copyright Lowell Observatory. Maps provided courtesy of the USGS Flagstaff Library. Mars 1969 Cartographers: JL Inge, CF Capen, LJ Martin, BQ Faure Mars 1973 Cartography: J. […]

Pictorial Representation of Mars

1:10M Orthographic projection Edition 1-AMS Prepared by the Army Map Service, Corps of Engineers, US Army, Washington D.C. 1965 Maps provided courtesy of the USGS Flagstaff Library.

Der Mars / The Planet Mars

Interpretative Analysis of the Relief of the Surface of Mars Relief genesis, relief dynamics, relief division 1:30M Author: H-P Jöns Technische Universität Clausthal-Zekkerfekd Printed with support of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinscgaft Cartography and Printing: Litographisches Institut Berlin 1991 Map provided courtesy of the USGS Flagstaff Library.

Super Catcher

Brad Kahlhammer: Super Catcher. 2014. Material: Wire and bells. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Although designed to represent a Native American dreamcatcher in a commercialized world, this piece of art may also be considered as a representation of the surface of a cratered planetary body. Since the Universe contains 100 billion galaxies, each has […]

Explanation

Column name	Column description
Catalog ID (M)	N/A
Title	Title of map
Author	Name of mapper(s), or author, PI, map editor, illustrator, etc. with roles
Nationality	Nationality of author
Start date	Year when mapping began / or year or observation
Date of publication	Year of publication or completion of manusctipt (empty if not published yet)
Body	Target name (planetary body)
Online	Online references about the map
Projection	Projection of map. 2-hemisphere is shown here.
Scale	N/A
Orientation	Orientation of map [north up, south up] – only for historic maps (north: cartographic tradition, south: astronomical tradition)
Publication type	The type of work that contains the map. [standalone, journal, conference, atlas, book figure, book supplement, book plate, encyclopedia, multisheet, digital]
Type, purpose	Type of map purpose [generic, outreach, science, citizen, surface operation (pre mission), landing site (post mission), observer, opposition, index, reference, eclipse/transit/occultation] generic: not defined, outreach: maps for the general public made b
Primary Nomenclature	Laguage(s) of nomenclature displayed on the map [Latin, English etc., IAU, informal]. Latin for Latin nomenclature prior to IAU.
Ref (map)	Full reference of map publication or publication that contains the map
DOI	DOI number of map
ID (publication)	ID of map publication or figure number
Origin type	If this map is not original, the following codes are used: [L: language variant, N: new print, U: updated edition, C: copied / modified from another map, R: renovation map (digital version of paper map with slight changes), F facsimile. RP: republished in
Origin ID	Any maps that this map is based on or copied from. Database ID of original map.
Based on map	Name of mapper
Base (spacecraft, telescope)	Name of spacecraft / instrument
Original title	Title of map in original langage (if not English)
Publisher	Name of Publisher; manuscript or self-published. For journals and conferences, the name of the journal or conference.
Coverage	Coverage of map [global, hemispheric, regional, local, landing site, landing ellipse, traverse]
Target location	IAU name of target feature (if named) or near side, far side etc. (If nothing noted, it is global)
Country	Country of Publisher (original/translation)
Type, content	Type of map [photo, map, sketch map, drawing, globe, tactile, data]. Data for raster datasets. For vector data, see Feature DB. Drawing: no grid, scale, projection etc.
Image base	Base theme of the map [shaded relief, photomosaic, photo, none]
Theme	Theme of map [visual, albedo, radar, low sun, topography, elevation, geology, geomorphology, art, nomenclature reference, feature, landing site reference, opposition map, event (eclipse etc) etc.]. Low sun is optical photo with shadows and no albedo. Vis
Technique	Cartographic technique [imagemap, datamap, cartographic map, unit map, airbrush, pencil, line drawing/outline, contour lines, DEM, DIM, shaded relief / hillshading, raster data etc.]
Style	Details on style
Method	Method how the data was obtained
Mapping scale	Scale of mapping
Resolution	Raster dataset resoltion [m/pixel]
Short Reference	Short form of reference to the map publication
GIS / data	URL where GIS or original spatial data is
Data provider	N/A
Profession	Profession of author (for historic maps)
Designator	Sheet designator terms following Greeley and Batson (1990) Planetary Mapping. Cambridge University Press. – only if displayed on the map. First letter: target body, 5M: scale, 90/0 etc: center coordinates, OM – orthophotomosaic , T – Topographic data (nom
Control	Controlled, semi-controlled, uncontrolled
Note on control	Base of control
Series title	Title of map series
Number of maps (in work)	N/A
Number of quads	N/A
Quad ID	Quad ID (or quads IDs) contained on the map
Map Diameter	N/A
Map width cm	N/A
Map height cm	N/A
Map width px	N/A
Map height px	N/A
Base type	Type of instrument of observation of base data [naked eye, telescope, spacecraft, space telescope, lander]
Location of copy	Library or archive where manuscript or rare copy is kept
Ref (literature)	Reference – literature about the map, may be the source of data if the map is not available. Separated with # symbols.
Status (2017)	Status of mapping [complete, in progress, in review] (mostly for USGS maps)
Aim	Original aim of mapping, if available
Notes	Any comments, remarks [Long text, may be multiple paragraphs]
Secondary nomenclature	Other languages of the nomenclature
Nomenclature Notes	Remarks on nomenclature
Photo note	N/A
Reference frame	ID from RefFrames
web2	Online references about the map
web3	Online references about the map
web4	Online references about the map
ocentric/ographic	Map coordinate [planetographic, planetocentric]
N	N/A
S	N/A
W 360E	N/A
E 360E	N/A
W 180	N/A
E 180	N/A
W 360W	N/A
R 360W	N/A
fig1	N/A
fig1 caption	N/A
fig2	N/A
fig2 caption	N/A
fig3	N/A
fig3 caption	N/A
fig4	N/A
fig4 caption	N/A
fig5	N/A
fig5 caption	N/A
STATUS	N/A
Sum	$180