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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Meridiani Sinus Quadrangle (albedo markings in red light)
Scale 1: 5 000 000
Mars — map
USGS, JPL, Caltech, NASA
Mercator Projection
Directed by BM Batson
Airbush rendetion: PM Bridges
Albedo interpretation: JL Inge
April 1971
Map provided courtesy of the USGS Flagstaff Library.
This map was prepared under the direction of
R. M. Batson as part of an experimental program
utilizing MM’69 pictures for developing optimum
methods for making maps with MM’71 pictures
Topographic airbrush rendition by P. L. Bridges
Horizontal control in areocentric coordinates
by Davies and Berg (1971), Jour. Geophys. Res.
Sect. V, 76, no. 2
Work performed under JPL contract no. WO-8122
and NASA contract no. W-13, 204
Albedo interpretation by J. L. Inge