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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Title: Mars Photomap
Photomosaic base map: Viking Orbiter
Map editor: Henrik Hargitai
Shade relief base map: Cartographers: L. S. Oreshina, L. Yu. Baeva. Editors: B. V. Krasnopevtseva, K. B.
Shingareva, Moscow State University for Geodesy and Cartography (MIIGAiK). (made in 2007)
Language of nomenclature: Latin
Language of explanations: English
Map type: Shaded Relief
Projection: Lambert Transversal Equivalent Azimuthal Projection
First Publication Date: 2008, only electronic edition
Scale: it appears as "1:320 000 000" ; but it is 32 000 000 in fact
Publication Place: Budapest
Publisher: Eötvös Loránd University Cosmic Materials Space Research Group
ISBN HU 978-963-463-969-5