NASA and Japan released an improved version of a digital topographic map Oct. 17 that was produced with measurements from NASA’s Terra Earth-observing satellite. The map, known as the global digital ...

NASA and the USGS created a topographic map of the closest planet to the sun. It's a view of Mercury that no one has ever seen before. They did it by using more than 100,000 pictures taken from NASA's ...

This week NASA and Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) released a new digital topographic map of Earth based on data from NASA's Terra spacecraft. The new global digital elevation ...

NASA and Japan have teamed to give a better view of the planet. Working with Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, the US space agency made a digital topographic map with 1.3 million images ...

Since June 2009, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has been circling the moon, compiling data for the first full topographic map of the moon’s surface, suggesting that 3.9 billion years ago ...

The elevation of nearly every place on Earth is now available, thanks to a NASA satellite mission. By analyzing 1.3 million images collected by a Japanese instrument aboard the spacecraft, the agency ...

Before crashing into Mercury's surface, the MESSENGER probe sent a glorious visual archive back to Earth. Here's what the probe taught us about Mercury before it died. Share on Facebook (opens in a ...

We have known about Mercury’s existence since at least the time of the Sumerians (3rd millennium BCE). But it wasn’t until nearly the end of the space race (between 1974-75) that we got a hard look as ...

NASA and Japan released a new digital topographic map of Earth Monday that covers more of our planet than ever before. The map was produced with detailed measurements from NASA’s Terra spacecraft. The ...

NASA and the USGS created a topographic map of the closest planet to the sun. It's a view of Mercury that no one has ever seen before. They did it by using more than 100,000 pictures taken from NASA's ...