We’ve seen a lot of good maps of Earth’s polar regions of late. A map that shows the thickness of the entire Antarctic ice sheet. Another that shows Greenland’s hidden bedrock contours in ...

Google Earth just launched the first high-resolution map of global deforestation. The project was developed in collaboration with the University of Maryland, NASA and USGS by analyzing 654,178 ...

Caltech scientists have created a nearly complete global map of Mars at an extremely high resolution of 5 m (16.4 ft) per pixel. The image itself is an impressive feat of engineering. It’s a ...

The map is a mosaic made up of 2,155 individual images, giving it an incredibly high resolution of just 2 inches (5 cm) per pixel. That makes it the highest-resolution global map of any planetary ...

Scientists have stitched together the highest-resolution topographic map of the Moon ever created ... A global view of Earth’s nearest neighbor at such high resolution had never existed before ...

Google Maps, of course, started including more high-res underwater topography to its maps in 2011 and recently introduced some underwater “Street View” images, too. Frederic was with ...