Catalog of Planetary Maps
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: canal
63 maps
| # | Title | Map No. | Lead Author | Artist | Target | Quad. | Scale | Year | Publisher | |
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| #2882 |
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The Lowellian canal network superposed on the Mariner 9 Mars cartography and Earth-based albedo. Published in: Carl Sagan and Paul Fox: The canals of Mars: An assessment after Mariner 9 Icarus Volume 25, Issue 4… | Sagan, Carl | Mars | 1975 | |||||
| #1866 |
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Map 1866 Publication Date: 1971 Based on: the text about Martian nomenclature by T.L. MacDonald Published in: T.L. MacDonald… | Wells, R. A. | Mars | 1971 | |||||
| #1597 |
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Locator map of the most important physiographic units of Mars. The shades are purely indicative, not meant to duplicate the actual appearance of the planet at the telescope. One of the last canal Maps of Mars, after the space age began. THE PHYSIOGRAPHY OF THE MARTIAN SURFACEApproximately … | Ronca, Luciano B. | Mars | 1970 | |||||
| #1093 |
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Mariner 69 Mars Chart Prepared under the direction of the Department of Defense, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center, US Air Force for N… | MEC-2 | Slipher, Earl C. | Mars | 25M | 1967 | US Air Force, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center | ||
| #5772 | MEC-2 75S-70N Prepared by Lowell Observatory | MEC-2 | Maulfair, M. J. | Inge, Jay L. | Mars | 25M | 1967 | Lowell Observatory | ||
| #5773 | MEC-2 librated orthographics 8deg22' Prepared by Lowell Observatory | MEC-2 | Maulfair, M. J. | Inge, Jay L. | Mars | 25M | 1967 | Lowell Observatory | ||
| #866 | Mars Exploration - General Electric Mariner 4 Mars Map | Scarfo, Roy | Mars | 35M | 1966 | General Electric | ||||
| #758 |
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Pictorial Representation of Mars 1:10M Orthographic projection Edition 1-AMS Prepared by the Army Map Service, Corps of Engineers, US Army, Washington D.… | 1-AMS | Mars | 10M | 1965 | Army Map Service, Corps of Engineers | |||
| #759 |
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Pictorial Representation of Mars, Centered on 0 longitude | Mars | 10M | 1965 | Army Map Service | ||||
| #760 |
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Pictorial Representation of Mars, Centered on 180 longitude | Mars | 10M | 1965 | Army Map Service | ||||
| #761 |
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Pictorial Representation of Mars, Centered on 220 longitude | Mars | 10M | 1965 | Army Map Service | ||||
| #762 |
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Pictorial Representation of Mars, Centered on 270 longitude | Mars | 10M | 1965 | Army Map Service | ||||
| #763 |
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Pictorial Representation of Mars, Centered on 90 longitude | Mars | 10M | 1965 | Army Map Service | ||||
| #781 | Provisional topographic map of Mars, Mariner 4 Region | TN-701-66-8 | Tombaugh, Clide | Mars | 1965 | |||||
| #599 | Planisferio de Marte Planisphere of Mars | Escalante, F. J. | Mars | 1963 | ||||||
| #600 | Planisferio de Marte Planisphere of Mars | López, Elpido | Mars | 1963 | ||||||
| #553 | Mars – Key Map | Slipher, Earl C. | Mars | 50M | 1962 | |||||
| #554 |
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MEC-1 Prototype This map is the last product of the pre-space age maps, combining all possible knowledge to support the first space miss… | MEC-1 | Slipher, Earl C. | Mars | 35M | 1962 | U. S. Air Force | ||
| #422 | ALPO map of Mars | Vaughin, Frank | Mars | 1959 | ||||||
| #409 | Mars 1956 | Vaughin, Frank | Mars | 1957 | ||||||
| #388 | Planisphere de Mercure Planisphere of Mercury | Lowell, Percival | 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 | |||||
| #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 | ||||
| #348 | Map 348 | Barabashov, N. P. | Mars | 1927 | ||||||
| #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 | |||||
| #326 |
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Map of Mars No 1 of No 1 and 2. | Burger, George A. | Mars | 1922 | |||||
| #318 |
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Map 318 In: Scheiner: Népszerű asztrofizika. K.M. Természettudományi Társulat, Budapest, 1916. From Magyar Csillagászati Egyesül… | Scheiner, Christopher | Mars | 1916 | K. M. Természettudományi Társulat | ||||
| #313 |
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Planisphere de la Planete Mars Planisphere of planet Mars Planisphere de la Planete Mars. Dressé par M. Georges Fournier, d'apres les observations faites en 1907, 1909, 1911-1912… | Fournier, M. Georges | Mars | 1913 | |||||
| #314 |
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Planisphere de la Planete Mars. Dressé par M. Georges Fournier, d'apres les observations faites en 1907, 1909, 1911-1912, aux Observatoires Jarry-Desloges, du Revard, du Massegros, de Toury et de Sétif. Astronomes adjoints, MM. G. et V. Fournier Planisphere of the planet Mars. Drawn by M. Georges Fournier from observations made in 1907, 1909, and 1911-1912 at the Jarry-Desloges, Revard, Massegros, Toury, and Setif observatories. Assistant astronomers: G. and V. Fournier | Fournier, Georges M. | Mars | 1913 | |||||
| #315 |
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Planisphère de Mars dressé d’après les observations faites en 1911, à l’Observatoire Urania, de Kopenhague. Planisphere of Mars drawn from observations made in 1911 at the Urania Observatory, Copenhagen Authors: MM. C. Luplau-Janssen and E. Buch-Andersen Observatory of Copenhagen. Source: Camille Flammarion Annuaire Ast… | Luplau-Janssen, C. | Mars | 1913 | |||||
| #304 | Mars. Map From a Globe made by M. Wicks https://www.gutenberg.org/files/27633/27633-h/27633-h.htm From a Globe made by M. Wicks - The dark shaded portions are v… | Wicks, M. A. | Mars | 1911 | Seeley and Co. Limited | |||||
| #299 |
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Hemisphaerium Martis boreale ex observationibus anni 1890 Northern hemisphere of Mars from observations of the year 1890 1890 (publ. 1910) G.V. Schiaparelli: Osservazioni astronomiche e fisiche sull'asse di rotazione e sulla topografia … | Schiaparelli, Giovanni V. | Mars | 1910 | Tipografia della R. Accademia dei Lincei | ||||
| #296 | Map of Mars | Lowell, Percival | Mars | 1909 | ||||||
| #291 |
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Drawings of Mars These are probably the first drawings of Mars by a woman astronomer. They were drawn by Wrexie Louise Leonard, the assis… | Leonard, Wrexie Louise | Mars | 1907 | |||||
| #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 | |||||
| #279 |
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Lussinpiccolo observations 1894-1903 Map of Mars 1904 Leo Brenner (Spiridon Gopčević) Lussinpiccolo observations 1894-1903 Astronomische Rundschau Lussinpi… | Brenner, Leo | Mars | 1904 | |||||
| #274 |
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Test map Drawn by: Edward Walter Maunder Evans, J. E. & Maunder, E. W.: Experiments as to the actuality of the "Canals"… | Maunder, Edward Walter | Mars | 1903 | Royal Astronomical Society | ||||
| #269 |
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Map of Mercury Source: P. Lowell: New observations of the planet Mercury. Cambridge, J. Wilson and son, 1902. In Memoirs o… | Lowell, Percival | Mercury | 1902 | |||||
| #254 | Le linee di Marte nel 1898-99 = Planisphere aréographique dressé par M. Cerulli d'aprés ses observations The lines of Mars in 1898-99 = Areographic planisphere drawn by M. Cerulli from his observations | Cerulli, V. | Mars | 1900 | ||||||
| #258 | Map 258 | Flammarion, Camille | Mars | 1900 | ||||||
| #256 |
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Map of Mars 1896-97 Reproduction from: Volume II. I. Observations of the Planet Jupiter and its Satellites 1894 and 1895. II. Observations o… | Lowell, Percival | Mars | 1900 | University Press | ||||
| #251 |
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Martis phaenomena, anno 1888 in hemisphaerio boreali…, Regiones Martis boreales… Phenomena of Mars in the northern hemisphere in 1888; northern regions of Mars 1888 (publ. 1899) G.V. Schiaparelli: Osservazioni astronomiche e fisiche sull'asse di rotazione e sulla topografia e … | Schiaparelli, Giovanni V. | Mars | 1899 | |||||
| #247 |
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Map 247 1898 reproduction Reproduction in Flammarion, C. 1898(?); De wonderen des hemels; Zutphen | Schiaparelli, Giovanni V. | Mars | 1898 | |||||
| #239 |
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Map 239 Map of Mars 1896 Leo Brenner (Spiridon Gopčević) Lussinpiccolo observations 1896 Abhandlungen der Kgl Akademie des Wis… | Brenner, Leo | Mars | 1897 | |||||
| #237 |
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Regiones Martis Boreales…, Hemispherium Martis boreale… Northern regions of Mars; northern hemisphere of Mars 1886 (publ. 1897) G.V. Schiaparelli: Osservazioni astronomiche e fisiche sull'asse di rotazione e sulla topografia de… | Schiaparelli, Giovanni V. | Mars | 1897 | |||||
| #230 |
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Mars 1883-84 1883-84 (publ. 1896) Mars 1883-84 Mercator Projection Source G. V. Sciapparelli: Memoria 6: Osservazioni astronomiche… | Schiaparelli, Giovanni V. | Mars | 1896 | Tipografia della R. Accademia dei Lincei | ||||
| #227 |
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Map 227 Map of Mars 1894 Leo Brenner (Spiridon Gopčević) Lussinpiccolo observations 1894 Astronomische Nachrichten 137/3… | Brenner, Leo | Mars | 1895 | |||||
| #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 | ||||
| #219 |
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Carte d' ensemble de la Planeta Mars avec ses lignes sombres nom doublées / Le geminazioni delle linee oscure del pianeta Marte Overview map of planet Mars with its dark lines not doubled / The doubling of the dark lines of planet Mars Popular reproductions "1877-1888" (1893 repr) Showing single and twin lines French edition Italian map. The same m… | Schiaparelli, Giovanni V. | Mars | 1893 | Various, international | ||||
| #199 |
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Canaux énigmatiques observés sur la planete Mars Enigmatic canals observed on planet Mars Flammarion, C (1892) La planete Mars et ses condtions d'habilité. Paris, Gauthier-Villars et fils, Imprimeurs-libraries … | Schiaparelli, Giovanni V. | Mars | 1892 | Gauthier-Villars et fils | ||||
| #207 |
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Detail maps of Mars Detail maps and hydrographic maps | Flammarion, Camille | Mars | 1892 | |||||
| #210 | Lac formé par l'intersection de plusieurs canaux Lake formed by the intersection of several canals | Fig 294 | Flammarion, Camille | Mars | 1892 | Gauthier-Villars et fils | ||||
| #215 | Nouvelle carte des canaux doubles de la planete Mars, par M Sciaparelli, d'apres ses observations de 1877 a 1886 New map of the double canals of the planet Mars, by M. Schiaparelli, from his observations of 1877 to 1886 | Fig 195 | Mars | 1892 | Gauthier-Villars et fils | |||||
| #217 | Phénomenes observés sur Mars. Le canal Hydraotes-Nilus Phenomena observed on Mars. The Hydraotes-Nilus canal | Fig. 234 | Flammarion, Camille | Mars | 1892 | Gauthier-Villars et fils | ||||
| #197 |
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Map 197 1891 repr. US Edition, in: Peck, W. 1891; A popular handbook and atlas of astronomy, designed as a complete guide to a… | Schiaparelli, Giovanni V. | Mars | 1891 | |||||
| #184 |
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Mappa Aerographica 1881-82 Aerographic map, 1881–82 1881-82 (publ.1886) G.V. Schiaparelli: Osservazioni astronomiche e fisiche sull'asse di rotazione e sulla topografia… | Schiaparelli, Giovanni V. | Mars | 1886 | Tipografia della R. Accademia dei Lincei | ||||
| #6756 |
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Ingeborg Brun's Globe of Mars (1909) Hand painted by the Danish astronomer Emmy Ingeborg Brun in 1905-1909. The globe is based on the canal maps of Percival… | Brun, Emmy Ingeborg | Mars |