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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Carte synoptique de la planète Mars, d’après les observations de 1900–1901 à l’Observatoire de Juvisy.
Scale 1: 30 000 000
Synoptic map of Mars, based on observations of 1900–1901 at the Juvisy Observatory
Mars — map
1900. Courtesy of Ton Lindemann. This map is largely based on the British Astronomical Association map 1896 but includes more polar latitudes.
Same map as above from a Russian encyclopedia. Новый энциклопедический словарь. Брокгауза и Ефрона / [под общ. ред. К. К. Арсеньева]. Petrograd. n.d. СПб, 191(?). (c. 1915)
Antoniadi's map 1900 reprojected onto the shaded relief map of Mars. Courtesy of Ton Lindemann.
Antoniadi & Flammarion, C: Nouvelles Observations de Mars Faites a l'Observatoire de Juvisy. Bulletin de la Societe Astronomique de France et Revue Mensuelle d'Astronomie, de Meteorologie et de Physique du Globe, vol. 15, pp.345-355 1901
One of the first polar views of Mars.