[AZ-Observing] Re: Free Lunar maps

Tom, Matt, Brian, and others -
USGS (Flagstaff) has all the ACIC charts - and for that matter all USGS 
planetary maps, plenty of planetary maps by others, prints or CD-ROMS with 
images from all planetary missions, etc.  - available for public 
inspection.  This is part of the "Regional Planetary Data Facility" (RPIF) 
that we maintain under contract to NASA.  These are available in USGS 
Building 5 anytime (9-5 weekdays), although it would be wise to call 
Adrienne Wasserman here (928-556-7264) in advance to make sure someone is 
available to help find things.  And make time for a visit to all the 
buildings here to see the displays on Astrogeology, Grand Canyon Mapping, 
southwest water resources, biological resources, etc.  The general website 
is http://wwwflag.wr.usgs.gov/USGSFlag/USGSFlag.html, the RPIF site is at 
http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/Projects/RPIF/,  while maps to our location 
are available at 
http://wwwflag.wr.usgs.gov/USGSFlag/Overview/overview.html .

The ACIC maps are all long out of print, so it's impossible to order 
further copies, whether at $0.35 or any price.  This is part of the reason 
LPI (also under contract to NASA) is digitizing these maps, and why we're 
also restoring/digitizing all the lunar orbiter images (see 
http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/Projects/LunarOrbiterDigitization/).

Many of these map series cover limited areas (e.g. the near-side Apollo 
landing site areas) because they're based on Apollo metric and panoramic 
camera photographic coverage, and that's only available in limited areas. 
And that coverage, even after 30 years, is still the best available, 
particularly for stereo (needed to make topographic maps).

These are U.S. Government products, so they have no copyright and no 
permission is needed to reproduce them (your tax dollars at work...).  If 
you can find a big enough printer, feel free to download the tiff files 
and print as many copies as you want.

- Brent

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 Brent A. Archinal                     Geodesist
 Astrogeology Team
 U. S. Geological Survey               928-556-7083
 2255 N. Gemini Drive                  928-556-7014 fax
 Flagstaff, AZ  86001                  barchinal@xxxxxxxx


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