Those who simply want to see what the most accurate digital topographic map looks like can cruise around the Hawaiian island of Oahu in the video below. NASA The PopSci team has tested hundreds of ...

"The ASTER global digital elevation model was already the most complete, consistent global topographic map in the world," said Woody Turner, ASTER program scientist at NASA Headquarters in ...

It's a big improvement on the previous best topographic map publicly available, which was produced by the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, and surveyed 80 percent of the world.

The 500 terabytes of data they beamed down over the years was continually processed to create real-world elevation models. The result is a 3D topographic map that’s precise to a single meter ...

Microsoft Flight Simulator is renowned not only as a flight experience but also for creating one of the most realistic digital maps of the entire planet. The journey began decades ago, long before ...

Monitoring the constantly changing shape of the sea surface is important for scientific and societal applications such as ocean current forecasting, climate research, ship routing, cable laying and ...

Scientists have pieced together the first-ever global topographic map of Titan ... Scientists have been keen to study the cloud-covered world because of its Earth-like qualities.

A World Map With No National Borders and 1,642 Animals ... But the continent’s stunning topography “supercharged” his childhood passion for geography, he said, and he began compulsively ...

better maps might not look quite as you’d expect. The new process incorporates lunar topography data from the agency’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, a mission that has been mapping the moon in ...

Scientists have pieced together the first-ever global topographic map of Titan ... stories about the discoveries and ideas shaping our world today. Titan is the second largest moon in the solar ...