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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Map 470
Scale 1: 10 000 000
Moon — map
Sketch of the farside
From the front page of: Issledovanie Luny v SSSR Ed. V. Polyakov
The 1st scheme from Luna 3 images.
„No one wanted to make a map from Luna 3 materials. At Sternberg Institute it was done by the leadership of prof. Lipsky who tried to make the map. The images were of bad quality but it was important to make maps since this way they could give the first names of the farside so they had to find relief features. Some were found, mostly dark spots. The mapping was succesful even from this low quality materials, since most of the features later proved to really exist." (Shingareva 2009)
Reference: TRANSACTIONS OF THE IAU : VOLUME XIB, Academic Press 1962 p. 234
http://www.iau.org/static/resolutions/IAU1961_French.pdf
Language of nomenclature: Latin
Language of explanations: French
Publication Place: Berkeley / United Nations
Publication Date: 1962
NOTE: this map includes names appeared in Barabashov, N.P., Mikhailov,A.A., and Lipsky,Yu.N., Eds., Atlas obratnoi storony Luny: Chast'1 (Atlas of the Far-side of the Moon: Part 1), Moscow: Acad. Nauk SSSR, 1960.
