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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Photos: Unless otherwise indicated, all photographs are by H. Hargitai. Several photographs are from the USGS Astrogeology Map Library and Lowell Observatory, both in Flagstaff, Arizona. Several photographs of Soviet maps were taken at MIIGAiK, Moscow.
Contact: The catalog is curated by H. Hargitai, ELTE, Budapest, hargitai.henrik@btk.elte.hu.
Main_theme: contour lines
763 maps
| # | Title | Map No. | Lead Author | Artist | Target | Quad. | Scale | Year | Publisher | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #923 |
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Unknown | RLC 17 | Moon | 2k | 1966 | US Air Force, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center | |||
| #924 |
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Unknown | RLC 6 | Moon | 1M | 1966 | US Air Force, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center | |||
| #925 |
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Unknown | RLC 9 | Moon | 50k | 1966 | US Air Force, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center | |||
| #743 |
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Lunar Chart - Cleomedes | LAC-44 | Dungan, Tom | Moon | LAC-44 | 1M | 1965 | US Air Force, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center | |
| #745 |
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Lunar Chart - Fracastorius | LAC-97 | Dungan, Fred | Moon | LAC-97 | 1M | 1965 | US Air Force, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center | |
| #750 |
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Lunar Chart - Rupes Altai | LAC-96 | Bridges, Patricia M. | Moon | LAC-96 | 1M | 1965 | US Air Force, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center | |
| #753 |
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Macrobius | LAC-43 | Moon | LAC-43 | 1M | 1965 | US Air Force, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center | ||
| #755 |
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Mare Serenitatis | LAC-42 | Moon | LAC-42 | 1M | 1965 | US Air Force, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center | ||
| #784 |
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Seleucus | LAC-38 | Moon | LAC-38 | 1M | 1965 | US Air Force, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center | ||
| #792 |
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Topographic Lunar Map, Edition 1-AMS | LunarIT2M1LWO | Moon | Northwest | 2M | 1965 | Army Map Service | ||
| #793 |
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Topographic Lunar Map, Edition 1-AMS | LunarIT2M2LWO | Moon | Mid-West | 2M | 1965 | Army Map Service | ||
| #794 |
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Topographic Lunar Map, Edition 1-AMS | LunarIT2M3LWO | Moon | Southwest | 2M | 1965 | Army Map Service | ||
| #795 |
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Topographic Lunar Map, Edition 1-AMS | LunarIT2M4LWO | Moon | Northeast | 2M | 1965 | Army Map Service | ||
| #796 |
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Topographic Lunar Map, Edition 1-AMS | LunarIT2M5LWO | Moon | Mid-East | 2M | 1965 | Army Map Service | ||
| #797 |
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Topographic Lunar Map, Edition 1-AMS | LunarIT2M6LWO | Moon | Southeast | 2M | 1965 | Army Map Service | ||
| #646 | Aristarchus Region (infra red) | Moon | 1964 | Boeing scientific research laboratories | ||||||
| #649 | Contour map of the Moon | Goudas, C. L. | Moon | 1964 | Boeing | |||||
| #650 |
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Copernicus, 2nd edition | LAC-58 | Moon | LAC-58 | 1M | 1964 | US Air Force, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center | ||
| #655 | Goudas, C. L. (1964). A contour map of the moon. Icarus, 3(5-6), 476–485. doi:10.1016/0019-1035(64)90007-7 | Moon | 1964 | |||||||
| #658 |
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Langrenus | LAC-80 | Moon | LAC-80 | 1M | 1964 | US Air Force, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center | ||
| #664 |
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Lunar Chart - Pitatus | LAC-94 | Bridges, Patricia M. | Moon | LAC-94 | 1M | 1964 | US Air Force, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center | |
| #665 |
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Lunar Chart - Purbach | LAC-95 | Dungan, Fred | Moon | LAC-95 | 1M | 1964 | US Air Force, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center | |
| #672 | Lunar surface albedo | Moon | 1964 | |||||||
| #674 |
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Mare Undarum | LAC-62 | Moon | LAC-62 | 1M | 1964 | US Air Force, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center | ||
| #675 |
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Montes Riphaeus | LAC-76 | Moon | LAC-76 | 1M | 1964 | US Air Force, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center | ||
| #691 |
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Ranger VII Lunar Chart - Bonpland H Mare Cognitum | RLC 3 | Dungan, Tom | Moon | 100k | 1964 | US Air Force, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center | ||
| #692 |
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Ranger VII Lunar Chart - Bonpland PQC | RLC 4 | Bridges, Patricia M. | Moon | 10k | 1964 | US Air Force, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center | ||
| #693 |
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Ranger VII Lunar Chart - Bonpland PQC Mare Cognitum | RLC 4 | Moon | 10k | 1964 | US Air Force, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center | |||
| #694 |
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Ranger VII Lunar Chart - Guericke Mare Cognitum | RLC 2 | Bridges, Patricia M. | Moon | 500k | 1964 | US Air Force, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center | ||
| #695 |
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Ranger VII Lunar Chart - Mare Cognitum | RLC 1 | Bridges, Patricia M. | Moon | 1M | 1964 | US Air Force, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center | ||
| #696 |
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Ranger VII Lunar Chart (untitled) | RLC 5 | Moon | 1k | 1964 | US Air Force, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center | |||
| #708 |
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Topographic Lunar Map - Edition 2-AMS - Sheet 1 | Moon | 5M | 1964 | Army Map Service, Corps of Engineers | ||||
| #709 |
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Topographic Lunar Map - Encke-B Sheet 4, Edition 1-AMS, Preliminary printing | Lunar 4T250 | Moon | 250k | 1964 | Army Map Service | |||
| #713 |
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Topographic Lunar Map Sheet 1 - Pictorial Rrelief Printing, Edition 2-AMS | Lunar1T5MILPR | Moon | 5M | 1964 | Army Map Service | |||
| #714 |
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Topographic Lunar Map Sheet 2 - Gradient Tint Printing, Edition 1-AMS | Moon | 5M | 1964 | |||||
| #715 |
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Topographic Lunar Map Sheet 2 - Pictorial Rrelief Printing, Edition 1-AMS | Lunar2T5MILPR | Moon | 5M | 1964 | Army Map Service | |||
| #717 | Topographic map of a small area of the Moons surface in Mare Cognitum - Preliminary topographic map prepared from Ranger VII, P3 camera, photograph 979 by photometric methods | McCauley, John F. | Moon | 1964 | ||||||
| #718 | Topographic map of part of area covered in last photograph transmitted by Ranger VII | Moon | 1964 | U. S. Geological Survey | ||||||
| #721 |
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Unknown | RLC 2 | Moon | 500k | 1964 | US Air Force, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center | |||
| #722 |
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Unknown | RLC 3 | Moon | 100k | 1964 | US Air Force, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center | |||
| #723 |
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Unknown | RLC 4 | Moon | 10k | 1964 | US Air Force, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center | |||
| #572 |
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Aristarchus | LAC-39 | Moon | LAC-39 | 1M | 1963 | US Air Force, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center | ||
| #573 |
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Colombo | LAC-79 | Moon | LAC-79 | 1M | 1963 | US Air Force, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center | ||
| #580 |
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Gradient tint printing Contour interval 1000 meters With supplementary contours at 500 meter intervals Relief partially shown by form lines In… | 2-AMS | Moon | 2.5M | 1963 | Army Map Service, Corps of Engineers | |||
| #585 |
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Lunar Chart - Hevelius | LAC-56 | Bridges, Patricia M. | Moon | LAC-56 | 1M | 1963 | US Air Force, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center | |
| #586 |
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Lunar Chart - Mare Vaporum | LAC-59 | Bridges, Patricia M. | Moon | LAC-59 | 1M | 1963 | US Air Force, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center | |
| #642 | Map 642 | Moon | 1M | 1963 | ||||||
| #596 |
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Montes Apenninus | LAC-41 | Moon | LAC-41 | 1M | 1963 | US Air Force, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center | ||
| #607 |
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Ptolemaeus | LAC-77 | Moon | LAC-77 | 1M | 1963 | US Air Force, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center | ||
| #611 |
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Shaded relief - Mare Nectaris-Mare Imbrium, Lunar names listing Series Shaded relief 1:2,5M, 1962., Mare Nectaris-Mare Imbrium map sheet [gallery ids="https://planetarymapping.elte.h… | Moon | 2.5M | 1963 | Army Map Service, Corps of Engineers |