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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The Lowellian canal network superposed on the Mariner 9 Mars cartography and Earth-based albedo.
Mars — map
Published in: Carl Sagan and Paul Fox: The canals of Mars: An assessment after Mariner 9 Icarus
Volume 25, Issue 4, August 1975, Pages 602-612
Language of nomenclature: Latin
"Abstract: The Lowellian canal network has been compared with the results of Mariner 9 photography of Mars. A small number of canals may correspond to rift valleys, ridge systems, crater chains, and linear surface albedo markings. But the vast bulk of classical canals correspond neither to topographic nor to albedo features, and appear to have no relation to the real Martian surface."