Moon Atlas
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The Moon surface has been divided into a series of Quadrangles by the US geological survey.
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Layout of the 30 lunar quadrangles at the 1:2,500,000 map scale
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Layout of the 144 Lunar quadrangles at the 1:1,000,000 map scale
The Moon has been divided into 30 quadrangles by the United States Geological Survey at the 1:2,500,000 map scale.[1] At the 1:1,000,000 scale it's divided into 144 quadrangles.[2]
The quadrangles are numbered in bands from north to south. Each band is then divided into a latitude-dependent number of quadrangles. At the poles, the bands consist of a single quadrangle, so LQ01 is a circle around the north pole.
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