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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Main_theme: albedo
459 maps
| # | Title | Map No. | Lead Author | Artist | Target | Quad. | Scale | Year | Publisher | |
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| #416 |
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Marte Oppositione 1954 General map of Mars for the years 1941–1952 Coordinate system created using Juventae Fons observations for determinig rotation and 260 control points by Camichel. … | de Mottoni, Glauco Y. Palacios | Mars | 1958 | Cambridge University Press | ||||
| #417 |
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Plate 19.—Chart of Mars by Dr. J. H. Focas, showing the fine structure of the dark areas, based on visual and photographic observations with the 60 cm refractor at the Pic du Midi Observatory in 1958. Drawing by J. H. FOcas, Pic du Midi, 1958 Jean-Henri Focas Source: A. Dollfus: Visual and photographic studies off pla… | Focas, Jean-Henri | Mars | 1958 | |||||
| #411 |
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Map 411 Cartographer: Shiro Ebisawa Based on Antoniadi (1930) Comment: "This map is regarded, by the BAA Mars Section, as the st… | Ebisawa, Shiro | Mars | 1957 | British Astronomical Association, Mars Section | ||||
| #408 | Map of Mars... | Millman, P. M. | Mars | 1957 | ||||||
| #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.) | ||||
| #403 |
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Planisphere de Mercure Planisphere of Mercury A summary of Mercury mapping, early drawings reprojected uniformly into Mollweide projection. The last map is based on p… | Dollfus, Audouin | Mercury | 1956 | |||||
| #400 | Aspetto generale di Marte nel 1952 General appearance of Mars in 1952 | de Mottoni, Glauco Y. Palacios | Mars | 1955 | ||||||
| #397 | Moyenne des 5 oppositions Average of the 5 oppositions | Camichel, Henri | Mars | 1954 | ||||||
| #384 | Planishpere photographique de Mercure Photographic planisphere of Mercury | Dollfus, Audouin | Mercury | 1953 | ||||||
| #385 | Planisphere de Mercure Planisphere of Mercury | Antoniadi, Eugene Michael | Mercury | 1953 | ||||||
| #386 | Planisphere de Mercure Planisphere of Mercury | de l'Isle, Bidault | Mercury | 1953 | ||||||
| #387 | Planisphere de Mercure Planisphere of Mercury | Desloges, Jarry | Mercury | 1953 | ||||||
| #389 | Planisphere de Mercure Planisphere of Mercury | McEwen, Henry | Mercury | 1953 | ||||||
| #390 | Planisphere de Mercure Planisphere of Mercury | Rudaux, L. | Mercury | 1953 | ||||||
| #391 | Planisphere de Mercure Planisphere of Mercury | Schiaparelli, Giovanni V. | Mercury | 1953 | ||||||
| #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 | |||||
| #366 |
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Observavit et Pinxit Observed and painted Antoniadi's map of Mars, made for the for the Palais de la Découverte in Paris in 1936 (1:28M copy of the origin… | Antoniadi, Eugene Michael | Mars | 14M | 1936 | ||||
| #362 |
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Map 362 Cartographer: Eugene Michael Antoniadi Source: Antoniadi: La Planète Mercure 1934 Reference: Lawrence E. Krumenaker: Rem… | Antoniadi, Eugene Michael | Mercury | 1934 | |||||
| #356 |
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Map 356 Antoniadi 1930 La Planete Mars. Etude basee sur les resultats obtenus avec la grande lunette de l'Observatoire de Meudo… | Antoniadi, Eugene Michael | Mars | 1930 | Hermann & Cie. | ||||
| #352 | Map of Mercury | McEwen, Henry | Mercury | 1929 | ||||||
| #349 |
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Map 349 A summary of Mercury mapping, early drawings reprojected uniformly into Mollweide projection. The last map is based on p… | de l'Isle, Bidault | Mercury | 1928 | |||||
| #350 |
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Map 350 A summary of Mercury mapping, early drawings reprojected uniformly into Mollweide projection. The last map is based on p… | Rudaux, L. | Mercury | 1928 | |||||
| #345 |
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Chart of Mars Thomson, H 1927 Memoirs of the British Astronomical Association 27, London, pt 1, pl. 8 | Thomson, Harold | Mars | 1927 | |||||
| #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 | ||||
| #344 |
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Map 344 Perepelkine, E. J. (1926). Observations, faites sur la planète Mars en 1924. Astronomische Nachrichten, 227(14), 231–238… | Perepelkine, E. J. | Mars | 1926 |