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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Mappa Areographica Exhibens Planeae Martis Chorographicam inter POlum Australem et Parallelum 40um Latitudinis Borealis, 1877-1878
Areographic map showing the chorography of the planet Mars between the south pole and the 40th parallel of northern latitude, 1877-1878
Mars — map
1877 (publ. 1878)
G.V. Schiaparelli: Osservazioni astronomiche e fisiche sull'asse di rotazione e sulla topografia del pianeta Marte fatte nella Reale Specola di Brera in Milano coll'equatoriale di Merz durante l'opposizione del 1877. Atti della R. Accademia dei Lincei, Memorie della Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali, Roma, 1878. p308- M. 1. ser. 3. v. 2.
Mappa Aerographica 1876-77
Mercator/Stereographic Projection
G. V. Schiapparelli
The first appereance of the new nomenclature. This map suggests waterways and land.
Chromolithography
The above maps were based on these drawings
MAPPA AREOGRAPHICA
Exhibens Planetae Martis Chorographiam inter Polum Australem et Parallelum 40um
Latitudinis Borealis;
Ex propriis Observationibus atque Mensuris ope Tubi Merziani decempedalis
in Specula Braydensi Mediolani habitis
composuit, supputavit, atque delineavit J.V. Schiaparelli
1877 — 1878.
Translation (English):
Plate III
AREOGRAPHIC MAP
Showing the topography of the planet Mars between the South Pole and the 40th parallel
of northern latitude;
Compiled from personal observations and measurements made with a ten-foot Merz telescope
at the Brera Observatory in Milan
composed, calculated, and drawn by J. V. Schiaparelli
1877 — 1878.