2017 in Review 3: New Planetary Citizen Maps

Citizen scientist maps should deserve more attention, they are not just another renderings of already-known images but beautifully crafted high quality (and resolution) cartographic products.

The Goddesses of Venus

by Eleanor Lutz (USA)

A continuation of the Medieval map of Mars project, this unusual map takes you to the land of goddesses.

http://tabletopwhale.com/

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Maps of Mercury

by atlas-v7x (DeviantArt)  (New Zealand)

This series of Mercury maps show Mercury as no one has seen it before. These maps use MESSENGER topographic and color albedo data alone and combined. Nomenclature is dual, blue names are albedo features, white ones are topographic.

https://atlas-v7x.deviantart.com/art/The-Planet-Mercury-686594207

https://atlas-v7x.deviantart.com/art/The-Planet-Mercury-685464940

https://atlas-v7x.deviantart.com/art/The-Planet-Mercury-686592967

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Craters of the Moon

by atlas-v7x (DeviantArt)  (New Zealand)

This thematic map shows the topography of the Moon with crater names accompanied with little flags that show the nationality of the person the crater was named after.

https://atlas-v7x.deviantart.com/art/Craters-of-the-Moon-685022114

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The Planet Venus / Venus – Map of Craters

by atlas-v7x (DeviantArt) (New Zealand)

Generic map of Venus, based on old Magellan radar altimeter data, with a fresh, terrestrial look. The Venus crater map looks as if it was taken from a School Atlas. Very Earth-like colors of very alien world with a random distribution of impact craters symbolized with little suns, otherwise to small to show up at this scale.

https://atlas-v7x.deviantart.com/art/The-Planet-Venus-687359995

https://atlas-v7x.deviantart.com/art/Venus-Map-of-Craters-685020808

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47 Mars exploration zones for a future human mission

By Mateusz Pitura (Poland)

Did you know that Mars Exploration Zones still have no Wikipedia entry? Until a Wiki editor would discover that we have dozens of candidate human Mars mission targets, here is the map of these sites.

https://universumae.deviantart.com/art/47-Mars-exploration-zones-for-future-human-mission-717559880

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Titan Texture Map 8k

by FarGetaNik (DeviantArt) (Germany)

This map is at least as good as the new Google Earth Titan map and combines infrared equatorial coverage with polar radar swaths.  Dark areas show lakes at the poles and dunes at the equator.

https://fargetanik.deviantart.com/art/Titan-Texture-Map-8k-665838936

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Also this year:

Photomosaic Maps of Pluto 

https://fargetanik.deviantart.com/art/Pluto-Texture-Map-16k-643938442

https://fargetanik.deviantart.com/art/Pluto-Color-Map-16k-693675588

Photomosaic Map of Io

https://fargetanik.deviantart.com/art/Io-Truecolor-Texture-Map-8k-708688293

Which one is your favorite planetary Citizen Map in 2017?

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