The Detailed Topographic Lunar Atlas is here - a most detailed digital atlas of the Moon, showing the entire lunar surface in high resolution as you have never seen before!
The Moon is divided into two atlases: a near side and a far side atlas.
Each atlas consists of 1204 individual topographic maps covering the entire near-side of the Earth’s Moon and providing graphical representations of the Moon’s surface at unprecedented levels of detail. A scale of 1:500,000 was adopted for all maps, with the exception of the polar maps which were set at 1:800,000. The maps were created on the basis three lunar Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) developed by NASA.
The maps include names and labels for:
Near side:
- 6 Manned lunar landings
- 51 anthropological features of various nature
- 915 main craters
- 5418 satellite craters
- 11 crater chains (catena)
- 51 oceans, seas, bays, lakes and ponds (oceanus, mare, sinus, lacus and palus)
- 54 mountains and promontories (mons, montes and promontorium)
- 131 valleys and fissures (vallis and rima)
- 46 ridges and escarpments (dorsa and rupes)
- 1141 dome features
Far side:
- 693 main craters
- 1645 satellite craters
- 9 crater chains (catena)
- 7 seas and lakes (mare, lacus)
- 9 mountains (mons, montes)
- 5 valleys and fissures (vallis and rima)
- 1 ridge (dorsum)
A comprehensive index lists all named formations.
The PDFs can be easily navigated within PDF-readers or e-readers. Remarkable detail can be seen when maps are zoomed-in.
Near Side: 1231 pages, PDF download, colored, ISBN 978-3-949370-16-8, March 2025 (1st edition)
Far Side: 1218 pages, PDF download, colored, ISBN 978-3-949370-17-5, March 2025 (1st edition)
Now available via the Oculum online shop:
The Detailed Topographic Lunar Atlas Near Side
The Detailed Topographic Lunar Atlas Far Side
We will present both atlases live on display at NEAF!
