Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Amazing new digital elevation map from space


Not everything at the Daily Mail is about babes in bikinis, Simon Cowell, and Cheryl Cole:

Nasa satellite map reveals 99% of Earth's land surface for first time

An astonishing new map has revealed the elevation of nearly every place on Earth.


ASTER digital elevation map

Very impressive coverage of the Earth's surface. But ASTER isn't really a satellite, it's an instrument on the Terra satellite. Oh well.

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