Moon Atlas

The Moon surface has been divided into a series of Quadrangles by the US geological survey.

Layout of the 30 lunar quadrangles at the 1:2,500,000 map scale

File:Lunar quadrangle layout for 1 to 1000000 scale.png

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.

Quadrangles at the 1:2,500,000 scale
Name	Number	Latitude	Longitude
	LQ01	65° to 90°	−180° to 180°
	LQ02	30° to 65°	−180° to −120°
	LQ03		−120° to −60°
	LQ04		−60° to 0°
	LQ05		0° to 60°
	LQ06		60° to 120°
	LQ07		120° to 180°
	LQ08	0° to 30°	−180° to −135°
	LQ09		−135° to −90°
Marius^[3]	LQ10		−90° to −45°
Copernicus^[3]	LQ11		−45° to 0°
	LQ12		0° to 45°
	LQ13		45° to 90°
	LQ14		90° to 135°
	LQ15		135° to 180°
	LQ16	−30° to 0°	−180° to −135°
	LQ17		−135° to −90°
	LQ18		−90° to −45°
	LQ19		−45° to 0°
	LQ20		0° to 45°
	LQ21		45° to 90°
	LQ22		90° to 135°
	LQ23		135° to 180°
	LQ24	−65° to −30°	−180° to −120°
	LQ25		−120° to −60°
	LQ26		−60° to 0°
	LQ27		0° to 60°
	LQ28		60° to 120°
	LQ29		120° to 180°
	LQ30	−90° to −65°	−180° to 180°

Template:Moon quadrangle layout

At the 1:1,000,000 scale, there are 12 latitude bands, 6 in each hemisphere. The bands nearest the equator are 16° high, and the first and last bands are 10° radius circles around the poles. The bands are then divided into quadrangles, but unlike the 1:2,500,000 system, the seam is placed at +10° longitude (so 0° longitude is in the middle of a quadrangle), and the numbering within a band starts between −80° and −90°: