This is the second installment of a two-part series about the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission. Read part one here. Elevation ...

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Voyager's Golden Record is a 12-inch gold-plated copper disk, encoded with music, sounds and images from Earth ... map is flat—two dimensional. So they would still need to figure out where in 3D ...

New NASA research reveals a process to generate extremely accurate eclipse maps, which plot the predicted path of the Moon's ...

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Europe's dedicated polar-monitoring satellite has produced its sharpest view yet of the shape of Antarctica ... Europe's biggest Earth observation conference. Artwork: Cryosat was launched ...

An international team of scientists has produced the most detailed three-dimensional map ... 3D galaxy survey records. A component built by Durham University increases the telescope's field of ...

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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is a pretty monumental achievement in game development, based on a preview I saw of the game in Arizona at the Grand Canyon.