THE PROJECT OF MULTILINGUAL MAPS SERIES ON CELESTIAL BODIES: CURRENT STATE AND NEAR FUTURE
Manfred
F. Buchroithner2, Bianna V. Krasnopevtseva1, Kira B.
Shingareva1, Sergei M. Leonenko1, Maria E. Fleis3,
Philip Stooke4
1 - Moscow
State University
for Geodesy and Cartography, Moscow,
Russia
2 - Dresden
University of Technology,
Dresden, Germany
3 - Institute for Geography by Russian Academy
of Science, Moscow, Russia
4 - University of
Western Ontario, London, Canada
plan@miigaik.ru
Mapping of extraterrestrial territories is
very useful for education on the field of
extraterrestrial geography which being very active at the beginning of
XXI century. One of the first projects which were carried in frames of
Planetary Cartography Commission under ICA
support since 1996 became project on development of the concept for a
series of multilingual maps for Earth
group planets and their moons. Development of some map series for various Earth
regions and groups of languages was proposed. The nomenclature of relief features
and their names is traditionally appropriated by International Astronomical
Union (IAU) on Latin. It was proposed to give on maps a Latin version of names,
and on the back of a map to place the corresponding information in 5 languages.
This information, besides the terminology concerning relief forms, and their
own names should include brief characteristics of a celestial body, data on
surveying of a given body during space programs, and also the relativity figure
accepted for it. The first series was made on the basis of Atlas for
terrestrial group planets and their moons, published in Russia in 1992.
Maps of a series contain the information in 5 languages, namely English,
German, French, Spanish and Russian. Composition of maps is submitted by two hemispheres
having the same size for all celestial bodies and accordingly various scales
(fractional and approximated). The shaded relief is introduced, that emphasizes
its originality. By present time the updated maps of all terrestrial planets
and their moons, namely Mercury, Venus, Mars, the Moon, Phobos and Deimos are
prepared and issued with their preliminary, and then finally versions after
some corrections. Compiling of each map had some peculiarities which were
taking into account both specificity of celestial body, and volume and quality
of space surveying. There were developed two directions in this project: 1.
Making the same map series, but with new groups of languages and
2.Dessiminating this idea for new groups of celestial bodies (giant-planets moons,
asteroids). Today some results in both directions are present.
Keywords: extraterrestrial mapping,
multilingual maps, celestial bodies