[AZ-Observing] Re: Free Lunar maps
- From: "Brent A Archinal" <barchinal@xxxxxxxx>
- To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 11:32:57 -0700
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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