An instrument aboard the Terra satellite has generated the most complete digital topographic map of the Earth ... It features the lowest point in North America, Badwater, which sits 85.5 metres ...

More of North America’s land is covered by rivers than we thought, according to a new map. Scientists came up with a way to use satellite images to estimate the width of rivers and found that ...

It offers routable topography maps of North America, ... It comes with preloaded topographic maps with 3D terrain of North and South America and U.S. public and private landowner information.

To create the map, the researchers amassed over 2,000 stress orientations taken across North America, of which 300 are brand new. These measurements were taken from boreholes—long, narrow shafts ...

April 23 (UPI) --For the first time, scientists have produced a comprehensive map of the tectonic stresses acting on the North American continent.In the short term, the map of North American ...

All maps tell stories, but Canadian Geographic Education’s latest map is especially unique not because of what’s in it, but rather what it’s made of.The new classroom map of Canada and North America ...