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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Shaded relief - Mare Nectaris-Mare Imbrium, Lunar names listing
Scale 1: 2 500 000
Moon — map
Series Shaded relief
1:2,5M, 1962., Mare Nectaris-Mare Imbrium map sheet
(Photos from the Map collection of Stanford University)
CONTOUR INTERVAL 1000 METERS WITH SUPPLEMENTARY CONTOURS AT 500 METER INTERVALS
MODIFIED STEREOGRAPHIC PROJECTION
THE POINT OF ORIGIN IS 4.41616 KMS. FROM THE POINT OF TANGENCY OF THE MAP PLANE AND A SELENODETIC SPHERE THE RADIUS OF WHICH IS 1737.988 KMS.
VERTICAL DATUM: MÖSTING “A” (1960)
THE VERTICAL DATUM IS BASED ON THE ELEVATION OF 7000 METERS AT THE CENTER OF THE CRATER MÖSTING “A”.
HORIZONTAL DATUM: MÖSTING “A” (1960)
THE HORIZONTAL DATUM IS BASED ON THE SELENODETIC COORDINATES OF THE CENTER OF THE CRATER, MÖSTING “A”, BEING LONGITUDE 334°50′13″ AND LATITUDE SOUTH 3°10′47″
CARDINAL DIRECTIONS OF NORTH AND SOUTH CONFORM TO CARTOGRAPHIC TRADITION.
Prepared by the Army Map Service (AMS), Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army, Washington, D. C. Compiled in 1961 by stereophotogrammetric methods from photography by the Paris Observatory, dated 1896–1907. Names were generally derived from “Named Lunar Formations” (1935) by M. Blagg and K. Müller.