Venus

The first Venus radar sketch map

The first Venus radar sketch map

The first radar map of Venus

The first radar map of Venus

“Diagram of Venus surface features made with the Haystack-Westford interferometer. Features observed with the Haystack-Westford interferometer are indicated variously by capital letters, Roman numerals, and coordinate numbers. Goldstein’s Alpha and Beta regions are indicated (Region and Region ), while the labels given by Carpenter are shown in parentheses. (Courtesy of Alan E. E. Rogers.)” (source: […]

Geological maps of Venus (1989, Soviet)

Geological maps of Venus (1989, Soviet)

Atlas Poverhnosti Venery. Moscow 1989 Условные обозначениыа к геолого-морфологическим картам венеры масштаба 1:10 000 000 Типы релыефа Равнины низменностеы и предгорий Гладкие Холмистые Поверхности сводовых поднятый Гладкие Пересеченные Пологие склоны крупных вулканов Равнины возвышенностеы (Гладкие) Тессеры – Области пересеченного рельефа имесящего празличный структурный рисунок Ромбыческий Ортогоналный или параллелный Шевронный Хаотический пояса гряд Горное обрамление плато […]

Venera Map of Venus

Venera Map of Venus

Bazilevskiy AT 1989 The planet next door. Sky and Telescope, April 1989, p 368  

Drawing of Mars and Venus for children (2013)

Drawing of Mars and Venus for children (2013)

Published in: Gifford C 2013 Space in 30 Seconds. 30 Super-Stellar Subjects For Cosmic Kids Explained in Half a Minute. Ivy Kids. Creators: Evans, Melvyn (illustrator), Clive Gifford (author) These two map-like drawings show the complex surfaces of Mars and Venus, the Venus figure is exceptional in that it is based on a radar composite […]

Venus, batik

Venus, batik

Venus, batik on silk, 112” x 37” Displayed: Elliot School of International Affairs, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.. Website: http://maryedna.com/public-art/venus/

Altimetric and Shaded Relief Map of Venus

Altimetric and Shaded Relief Map of Venus

Gipsometricheskaya Karta Venery Manuscript Akademiya Nauk SSSR Institut Geochimii I Analiticheskoy Chimii Imeni V. I. Vernadskogo Laboratoriya Sravhitelnoy Planetologii 1:50M, 1:25M NN ???, G. A. Burba Map provided courtesy of the USGS Flagstaff Library.

Venera radar mosaic map series (1988)

Venera radar mosaic map series (1988)

AN SSSR GUGK SSSR Venera 27 listov fotokarty Venery. Map series of Venus based on Venera 16 and Venera 17 observations 1:5M Boxed folded edition and sheet map edition Using Venera-15, -16 radar images of the Northern part of Venus GUGK 1987, Full edition 1988 See also: Atlas of Venus Maps provided courtesy of the […]

Children’s Map of Venus

Children’s Map of Venus

  Editor: Henrik Hargitai Graphic artist: András Baranyai This map is part of a series  Website: https://childrensmaps.wordpress.com  

Virtual Globe of Venus: Topography (2009)

Virtual Globe of Venus: Topography (2009)

Virtual Globe for Google Earth.Google Earth Add-on: Venus Globe. TopographyCartgrapher: H. Hargitai, Eötvös Loránd University, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Planetary Science Research Group, M. Gede, Department of Cartography and GeoinformaticsSources: Color coded topographic map from Magellan dataNomenclature: LatinExtras: You can find additional geologic descriptionsin the Google Earth version Download kmz file for Google Earth […]

Virtual Globe of Venus: Radar Globe

Virtual Globe of Venus: Radar Globe

Virtual Globe for Google Earth.Google Earth Add-on: Venus Globe. RadarCartographer: H. Hargitai, Eötvös Loránd University, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Planetary Science Research Group, M. Gede, Department of Cartography and GeoinformaticsSources: Radar map from Magellan dataNomenclature: LatinExtras: You can find additional geologic descriptionsin the Google Earth versionWebsite Download kmz file for Google Earth Download […]

Schröter’s Drawing of Venus (1791)

Schröter’s Drawing of Venus (1791)

Date: 1789-91 Source: Fred William Price The planet observer’s handbook p. 119

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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