A small historical collection of Mars maps and global imagery

Early US missions
On Mars: Exploration of the Red Planet. 1958-1978 NASA SP-4212

Mariner 4

• Mars from Mariner 4 a blog posting from Dec 11, 2012, on Planet Images from Now and Then

The Viking 1 and 2 missions

• VIKING ORBITER VIEWS OF MARS NASA SP-441

The Mars Pathfinder mission

• Bounces as Mars Pathfinder landed
• X-ray spectrum of 'Barnacle Bill' (big, b/w)
• X-ray spectrum of 'Barnacle Bill' (small, color)
• Mars Pathfinder surface image
• The Pathfinder Rover

Soviet missions

• The Mars 2/3 spacecraft
• Mars 2/3 lander
• Images from the Phobos 2 probe

  European Space Agency

• The Beagle2 lander

• Ground-based photographs from the 1950s and 1960s (?), taken from a small collection in the Marswatch site at Cornell
  • directory of JPEG versions of photographs

Maps of Mars

• Maps in the British Astronomical Association's Mars section
• Made by E. Antoniadi with the Meudon Refractor
  • Entire map
    • SW quad: full size or half size or quarter size
    • SE quad full size or half size or quarter size
    • NW quad: full size or half size or quarter size
    • NE quad: full size or half size or quarter size
• USGS maps: no albedo, just topography. N.B. North up, east right
  • Eastern hemisphere
    • Entire: full size or half size or quarter size
    • NW quad full size or half size or quarter size
    • NE quad full size or half size or quarter size
    • SW quad full size or half size or quarter size
    • SE quad full size or half size or quarter size
  • Western hemisphere
    • Entire: half size or quarter size
    • NW quad full size or half size or quarter size
    • NE quad full size or half size or quarter size
    • SW quad full size or half size or quarter size
    • SE quad full size or half size or quarter size

Other stuff

• The entire book Mars, by Percival Lowell, originally published in 1895.
• Example of chemical differences between Mars and Earth