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[[Image:Lunar quadrangle layout for 1 to 1000000 scale.png|thumb|400px|Layout of the 144 Lunar quadrangles at the 1:1,000,000 map scale]] | [[Image:Lunar quadrangle layout for 1 to 1000000 scale.png|thumb|400px|Layout of the 144 Lunar quadrangles at the 1:1,000,000 map scale]] | ||
The [[Moon]] has been divided into 30 [[quadrangle (geography)|quadrangle]]s by the [[United States Geological Survey]] at the 1:2,500,000 map scale.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://astrogeology.usgs.gov/Projects/PlanetaryMapping/Lunar/| title=Lunar Geologic Mapping| publisher= NASA/USGS Planetary Geologic Mapping Program| date=2007-09-19| accessdate=2007-12-09}}</ref> At the 1:1,000,000 scale it's divided into 144 quadrangles.<ref>[http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/dAtlas.html USGS Astrogeology: Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature - USGS Digital Atlas of the Moon<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> | The [[Moon]] has been divided into 30 [[quadrangle (geography)|quadrangle]]s by the [[United States Geological Survey]] at the 1:2,500,000 map scale.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://astrogeology.usgs.gov/Projects/PlanetaryMapping/Lunar/| title=Lunar Geologic Mapping| publisher= NASA/USGS Planetary Geologic Mapping Program| date=2007-09-19| accessdate=2007-12-09}}</ref> At the 1:1,000,000 scale it's divided into 144 quadrangles.<ref>[http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/dAtlas.html USGS Astrogeology: Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature - USGS Digital Atlas of the Moon<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> | ||
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[[Category:Moon-related lists]] | [[Category:Moon-related lists]] | ||
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Revision as of 23:39, 25 November 2020
The Moon surface has been divided into a series of Quadrangles by the US geological survey.
File:Lunar quadrangle layout.jpg
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.
