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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MM 71's Planning Charts of the South Polar Region
Scale 1: 12 500 000
Mars — map
Albedo maps with nomenclature; Summer and Winter views
Based on Earth based observations 1941-58 and Mariner VI and VII oobservations.
Cartographer: James Roth under the direction of Gerard de Vaucouleurs, University of Texas, Austin, TX.
Printed by JPL 1971 for the Mariner Mars 1971 Project.
Map provided courtesy of the USGS Flagstaff Library.
This chart was prepared by James Roth under the direction of Dr. Gerard de Vaucouleurs, Department of Astronomy, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas.
Printed November 1971 by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, for the Mariner Mars 1971 Project, under National Aeronautics and Space Administration contract 7-100.
SURFACE FEATURES
The left-side map for a nominal areocentric longitude of Sun Ls = 320° (January 1, 1972) represents the surface features of the polar area as they appear in southern mid-summer of Mars. Albedo distribution is based on telescopic observations during corresponding seasonal periods in 1958 and 1941. The small south polar cap will subtend an average areocentric angle of 7° (420 km) with a centroid at longitude 23°, latitude −84.7°, from best telescopic determinations since 1877.
The right-side map for Ls = 220° (mid-spring) shows for comparison purposes the large south polar cap with its system of rifts and dark areas based upon the work of E. M. Antoniadi and G. Fournier in 1909 and 1924, as checked and updated by telescopic observations of the planet by G. de Vaucouleurs in July 1971.
COORDINATE SYSTEM
The coordinate system conforms to the International Astronomical Union convention and is consistent with the current usage of the American Ephemeris. Coordinates of surface features are referred to the system of standard stations of the Harvard–Texas Mars Map Project.
NOMENCLATURE
Nomenclature follows the classical work of Antoniadi (1930) and the de Mottoni (IAU 1958) map with a few revisions; names prepared by Subcommission 16 of the IAU and adopted on the IAU map of 1958 (by de Mottoni) are indicated by an asterisk.