By analyzing 1.3 million images collected by a Japanese instrument aboard the spacecraft, the agency created a topographic map covering 99 percent of the globe in a giant grid of measurements.

Made in 2012, the globe features labels for more than 850 ... the maps into CAD software and turned those patches of gray into topographical data. He later turned that into a file that could ...

then wrap it all around a sphere — and you’ve got a virtual topographic globe. Here’s a slower version of the GIF you see above. This would be really interesting to explore in first person ...

An instrument aboard the Terra satellite has generated the most complete digital topographic map of the ... images and covers 99 per cent of the globe, a substantial increase over previous maps ...

The team behind a new Kickstarter campaign isn’t the first bunch astronomy enthusiasts to create a detailed globe based on our nearest lunar neighbor. But using topographical data gathered by ...

Check out the video below to learn more about this lunar globe, its inspiration, design and features that has been created using NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter topographic data combined ...

PERTH, Australia, Aug. 20 (UPI) -- Australian scientists say satellite and topographic data has provided ... to expand wireless internet around the globe to untouched places, A sweat-powered ...

One of the first projects the fledging Canadian government undertook after Confederation -- printing and storing topographic maps of the country -- may become the victim of cost-cutting ...