Regional Planetary Information Facility: Obtaining Maps & Images

The RPIF is open to the public by appointment. Items in our collections may be viewed at our facilities. The RPIF does not sell maps, photographs, images, or other items.

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Maps

Download USGS Maps

The USGS Western Region Publications website has an easy-to-use listing of USGS planetary maps available for download.

USGS planetary and terrestrial maps may be downloaded from the USGS Publications Warehouse. Tips for searching the Publications Warehouse: planetary maps are generally published in the IMAP series; the planetary body name (e.g. Mars, Callisto), quadrangle name (e.g. MTM-15187, Lavinia Planitia), and/or region name (e.g. Planum Australe, ).

Purchase USGS Maps

USGS planetary and terrestrial paper maps may be purchased from the USGS Store. See Ordering USGS Products for more information about where and how to purchase USGS maps and other products.

Download Other Maps

The Lunar and Planetary Institute offers Lunar Atlases containing images, photos, historic maps, and other lunar resources.

Purchase Other Maps

The Lunar and Planetary Institute offers a number of atlases, catalogs, and other resources in their LPI Online Store.

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Planetary Imagery

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USGS Map-a-Planet is an easy way to create your own planetary image map of a number of planets and moons.

The NASA Planetary Photojournal contains thousands of planetary images from across the solar system.

The Planetary Image Atlas is a distribution point for a wide range of image data from space missions, designed for researchers.

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The Lunar and Planetary Institute offers Lunar Atlases containing images, photos, historic maps, and other lunar resources.

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Cartographic/GIS Data

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The USGS Planetary GIS Web Server offers interactive planetary maps and cartographic/GIS data downloads.

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Photographs

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The USGS Astrogeology Research Program has photo galleries from current activities, our history, astronaut training activities, and the Apollo missions to the moon.

The Lunar and Planetary Institute has an extensive collection of photographs from the manned Apollo missions to the moon.

The Greatest Images of NASA is an interesting collection of historic and contemporary photographs, planetary images, and artwork.

NASA Human Space Flight has a comprehensive gallery of photographs from the Space Shuttle, International Space Station, and other missions.

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