The Catalog of Planetary Maps.
Sources: The research that led to this catalog was supported by Fulbright Hungary Grant No. 1222202, awarded to H. Hargitai for research at USGS Astrogeology, Flagstaff, Arizona (advisor: Trent Hare), and by the ICA Commission on Planetary Cartography (advisor: Kira Shingareva). Most of the data is based on the inventory of the map library of USGS Astrogeology.
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Country_publisher: United States
4049 maps
| # | Title | Map No. | Lead Author | Artist | Target | Quad. | Scale | Year | Publisher | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #505 |
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Topographic Lunar Map - Landsberg C Sheet 1, Edition 1-AMS, Preliminary Printing | Lunar 1T250 | Moon | 250k | 1961 | Army Map Service | |||
| #506 |
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Topographic Lunar Map - Preliminary Printing - Edition 1-AMS - Sheet 1 | Moon | 5M | 1961 | Army Map Service, Corps of Engineers | ||||
| #507 | Topographic Lunar Map - Preliminary Printing Sheet 1 | Moon | 5M | 1961 | Army Map Service | |||||
| #508 | USAF Lunar chart LAC 57 pamphlet | Moon | 1961 | US Air Force, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center | ||||||
| #509 | USAF Lunar index pamphlet | Moon | 1961 | US Air Force, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center | ||||||
| #510 | USAF Lunar reference mosaic LEM 1A pamphlet | Moon | 1961 | US Air Force, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center | ||||||
| #429 |
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Experimental Lunar Chart - Copernicus | LAC 58X | Bridges, Patricia M. | Moon | 1M | 1960 | US Air Force, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center | ||
| #433 | Kepler | Moon | 1960 | US Air Force, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center | ||||||
| #434 | Lunar Atlas Book (index plate with quad nomenclature) | Moon | 1960 | US Air Force, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center | ||||||
| #435 | Lunar Atlas Book (plate with craters numbered) | Moon | 1960 | US Air Force, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center | ||||||
| #436 |
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Lunar Chart - Letronne | LAC 75 | Bridges, Patricia M. | Moon | 1M | 1960 | US Air Force, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center | ||
| #440 |
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Lunar Planning Chart (LOC-2) | LOC 2 | Moon | 1960 | US Air Force, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center | ||||
| #441 | Lunar Polar Reg. | Moon | 2M | 1960 | ||||||
| #443 | Orthographic Atlas of the Moon SUPPLEMENT NO. 1 TO THE PHOTOGRAPHIC LUNAR ATLAS | Arthur, D. W. G. | Moon | 1960 | University of Arizona Press | |||||
| #444 |
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Photographic Lunar Atlas (PLA) | Kuiper, Gerard P. | Moon | 1.4M | 1960 | Univ of Chicago Press | |||
| #445 | Physiographic Divisions of the Moon - Engineer Special Study of the Surface of the Moon | Hackman, Robert J. | Moon | Moon near side | 1960 | Army Map Service | ||||
| #449 | Preliminary photogeologic map of the Copernicus region of the Moon | Plate IV | Shoemaker, E. M. | Moon | 1960 | |||||
| #450 |
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Preliminary Photogeologic Map of the Copernicus Region of the Moon Map Making Set | Figure 2 | Shoemaker, E. M. | Moon | LAC 58 | 1960 | |||
| #452 | The Planet Mars | Mars | 1960 | North American Aviation, Inc. Space and Information Systems Division | ||||||
| #455 | Topographic Lunar Map Edition 1-AMS (Complete) | LUNAR2T5MILPR | Moon | 1960 | ||||||
| #459 |
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USAF Lunar chart Kepler | LAC-57 | Bridges, Patricia M. | Moon | LAC-57 | 1M | 1960 | US Air Force, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center | |
| #460 |
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USAF Lunar chart Kepler, 2nd advanced ed. | LAC-57 | Moon | LAC-57 | 1M | 1960 | US Air Force, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center | ||
| #461 |
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USAF Lunar chart, Kepler LAC 57, First advanced | LAC-57 | Bridges, Patricia M. | Moon | LAC-57 | 1M | 1960 | US Air Force, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center | |
| #462 |
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USAF Lunar Planning Chart, Copernicus Crater, Sinus Aetuum Region, Luna , LAC 58, Second advanced edition | LAC 58 | Moon | 1960 | US Air Force, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center | ||||
| #463 |
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USAF Lunar Reference Chart - Lunar Earthside Hemisphere, 2nd advanced edition | LEC-IA | Moon | Moon, near side | 10M | 1960 | US Air Force, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center | ||
| #464 |
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USAF Lunar Reference Mosaic - 2nd advanced ed | LEM-1A | Moon | Moon, near side | 1960 | US Air Force, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center | |||
| #465 |
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USAF Lunar Reference Mosaic - Lunar Earthside Hemisphere 2nd Advanced Edition | LEM-1 | Moon | Moon, near side | 5M | 1960 | US Air Force, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center | ||
| #466 | USAF Lunar Reference Mosaic, 1st edition | LEM-1A | Moon | 10M | 1960 | US Air Force, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center | ||||
| #420 | Map 420 | de Mottoni, Glauco Y. Palacios | Mars | 1958 | University of Chicago Press | |||||
| #418 |
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Rand McNally’s Official Maps of the Moon The 1958 edition includes the Physiographic division of the Moon that was published only in 1961. Background: ACIC. 1… | Moon | 2.3M | 1958 | Rand McNally | ||||
| #401 |
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ALPO map of Mars 1954 1954 Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers (A.L.P.O.) 1954 Source 1960 Both, Ernst E., A.L.P.O. Map o… | Avigliano, D. P. | Mars | 1956 | Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers (A.L.P.O.) | ||||
| #372 |
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Map of Mars made from many separate photographs Interpretive map of Mars showing canals and albedo markings. Source: McLoughlin E.V., Thompson H. 1943. The Book of … | Mars | 1943 | The Grolier Society | |||||
| #346 |
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Map 346 Trumpler, RJ 1927 Observations of Mars at the opposition of 1924. Lick Observatory Bulletin 13, 387, Berkeley, p… | Trumpler, Robert Julius | Mars | 1927 | University of California Press | ||||
| #296 | Map of Mars | Lowell, Percival | Mars | 1909 | ||||||
| #293 |
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Sprouting times of vegetation on Mars Lowell, P 1908 Mars as the abode of life. Macmillan, New York Phenology curves | Lowell, Percival | Mars | 1908 | Macmillan | ||||
| #294 | The Moon as seen with the naked eye | Serviss, Garrett Putnam | Moon | 1908 | ||||||
| #290 |
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Mars 1905 1905 Source: P Lowell: Mars and its canals. New York, Macmillan, 1906. | Lowell, Percival | Mars | 1906 | Macmillan | ||||
| #281 |
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A hemispheric color view of Mars A hemispheric color view of Mars, by P Lowell, 1905 Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ | Lowell, Percival | Mars | 1905 | |||||
| #282 | Map of Mars | Lowell, Percival | Mars | 1905 | Lowell Observatory | |||||
| #283 | Map of Mars | Lowell, Percival | Mars | 1905 | Lowell Observatory | |||||
| #285 |
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Mars 1896-7 Mars 1896-1897. Annals of the Lowell Observatory, 1905, p. 3. Courtesy Lowell Observatory Archives. In: Lane M, Geograph… | Lowell, Percival | Mars | 1905 | |||||
| #270 | A photographic atlas of the moon | Pickering, William Henry | Moon | 1903 | ||||||
| #263 | Lunar chart, No 1-4, Nortwest quarter etc | Serviss, Garrett Putnam | Moon | 1901 | ||||||
| #247 |
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Map 247 1898 reproduction Reproduction in Flammarion, C. 1898(?); De wonderen des hemels; Zutphen | Schiaparelli, Giovanni V. | Mars | 1898 | |||||
| #240 | Map 240 | Lowell, Percival | Venus | 1897 | ||||||
| #229 |
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Lick Observatory Atlas of the Moon | Holden, Edward S. | Moon | 3.6M | 1896 | Lick Observatory | |||
| #224 |
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Map of Mars 1894 Source: Lowell, P. 1895; Mars; Flagstaff Image courtesy Ton Lindemann. Nomenclature ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY REGI… | Lowell, Percival | Mars | 1895 | Lowell Observatory | ||||
| #222 |
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Map 222 | Lowell, Percival | Mars | 1894 | Lowell Observatory | ||||
| #220 | Map of the South Pole of Mars showing the polar cap and its changes in 1894 | Lowell, Percival | Mars | 1894 | ||||||
| #198 |
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A chart of Mars "This map represents the surface of Mars on the stereographic projection. It has been compiled (with only two exceptions… | Ball, Robert S. | Mars | 1892 |