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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #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 |