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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Target: Venus
474 maps
| # | Title | Map No. | Lead Author | Artist | Target | Quad. | Scale | Year | Publisher | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #4118 |
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Map 4118 Date: Apr 26, 1951. Source: W. R. Corliss: The Moon and The Planets. The sourcebook project 1985. Spoke system | Baum, R. M. | Venus | 1985 | |||||
| #4119 |
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Map 4119 Date: 1897. Feb. 17. Source: W. R. Corliss: The Moon and The Planets. The sourcebook project 1985. Spoke system | Griffith | Venus | 1985 | |||||
| #4113 |
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Venus Names Proposed Venera 15 and 16 Radar Survey July 1985 | Burba, Georgii Aleksandrovich | Venus | 1985 | |||||
| #4114 | Venus Shaded Relief Altimetry File 1 | Venus | 1985 | |||||||
| #4115 | Venus Shaded Relief Altimetry File 2 | Venus | 1985 | |||||||
| #3957 |
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Shaded relief map of Venus, VRM Planning Chart | I-1562 | Masursky, Harold | Inge, Jay L. | Venus | 50M | 1984 | U. S. Geological Survey | |
| #3961 |
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Topographic Map of Venus, VRM planning chart | I-1562 | Masursky, Harold | Inge, Jay L. | Venus | 50M | 1984 | U. S. Geological Survey | |
| #3964 | Venera 13-14 Lander Images | Venus | 1984 | |||||||
| #6687 |
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Venus surface data source map | Venus | 1984 | ||||||
| #3837 |
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Гипсометрическая карта венеры Hypsometric map of Venus | Venus | 50M | 1983 | Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, Academy of Sciences | ||||
| #3838 | Гипсометрическая карта Венеры - бланковый вариант Hypsometric map of Venus - blank version | Burba, Georgii Aleksandrovich | Venus | 50M | 1983 | |||||
| #3839 |
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ПЛАН Фотоплан Plan Publisher: ЦНИИГАИК Фотоплан 1983, 1:20 (Venera 10 site) Image source: Atlas of Terrestrial planets and their moons… | Venus | 20 | 1983 | Central Research Institute of Geodesy, Air Survey, and Cartography | ||||
| #3764 |
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Гипсометрическая карта Венеры (бланковый вариант) Hypsometric map of Venus (blank variant) Gipsometricheskaya Karta Venery Manuscript Akademiya Nauk SSSR Institut Geochimii I Analiticheskoy Chimii Imeni V. I. V… | Burba, Georgii Aleksandrovich | Venus | 50M | 1982 | ||||
| #3502 |
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Altimetric and Shaded Relief Map of Venus | I-1324 | Venus | 50M | 1981 | U. S. Geological Survey | |||
| #3613 | Pioneer-Venus Hagfors Map of Venus | Venus | 1981 | |||||||
| #3637 | Topographic Map of Venus VRM Planning Chart | Venus | 1981 | |||||||
| #3645 |
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Карта-схема типов местностей Венеры Schematic map of terrain types of Venus Karta-skhema tipov mestnostey Venery / Карта-схема типов местностей Венеры / Schematic map of types of Venusian terrain… | Venus | 1981 | Nauka | |||||
| #3646 | Карта-схема типов местностей Венеры Morphologic provinces of Venus | Florenskii, Kirill Pavlovich | Venus | 1981 | ||||||
| #3479 | Venus | Venus | 1980 | NASA Ames Reserach Center/USGS/MIT | ||||||
| #3363 | Venus Globe Photomosaics gores | Venus | 1979 | |||||||
| #3228 |
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Venus Pioneer Planning Chart | Inge, Jay L. | Venus | 1978 | |||||
| #3019 | ПЛАН - Топосхемы Venera 9 landing site map | Venus | 50 | 1976 | Central Research Institute of Geodesy, Air Survey, and Cartography | |||||
| #2888 | Venus 1:63,922,500 18 February 1975 Yes, Venus | Venus | 63M | 1975 | ||||||
| #2889 | Venus Shaded Relief | Venus | 1975 | |||||||
| #2094 | Contur map of Venus | Venus | 1973 |