Nasas Aster satellite map reveals 99% of Earths land surface for first time | Mail Online

30 Jun, 2009 | Written by Gossipgrrl | under News

Fearless web patrol found this L3AK of interest page Nasas Aster satellite map reveals 99% of Earths land surface for first time | Mail Online worth a look.

From the page: “An astonishing new map has revealed the elevation of nearly every place on Earth.

The Global Digital Elevation Model was created using nearly 1.3million images collected by a Japanese camera on board Nasa's Terra spacecraft. It is made up of a giant grid of 23,000 tiles, with each height point spaced 98ft apart.

It shows a detailed representation of the planet's land mass. In this colourised version, low elevations are purple, medium elevations are greens and yellows, and high elevations are orange, red and white. “

NASA telescope discovers largest-ever ring around Saturn | Mail Online

Fearless web patrol found this L3AK of interest page NASA telescope discovers largest-ever ring around Saturn | Mail Online worth a look. From the page: “The 'super-sized' halo was found by Nasa's Spitzer Space Telescope. To get a sense of its size it has a vertical height which is about 20 times the diameter of

New satellite to give Google Maps unprecedented resolution

Midnight L3AK Patrol says New satellite to give Google Maps unprecedented resolution the satellite that was recently launched into space on a rocket bearing the Google logo was the result of a joint venture between a commercial satellite imaging provider and the department of defense. In return for undisclosed terms, Google got two considerations: its logo

Revealed: the strange creatures that live in the darkness miles beneath the sea | Mail Online

Fearless web patrol found this L3AK of interest page Revealed: the strange creatures that live in the darkness miles beneath the sea | Mail Online worth a look. The Grimpoteuthis has been nicknamed 'Dumbo' because of the large 'ears' it uses to swim with Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1230013/Revealed-strange-creatures-live-darkness-miles-beneath-sea.html#ixzz0XfoN51Eu Read more at Revealed: the strange creatures that live

NASA Crowdsources Hi-Res Mars Mapping as an Online Game for Kids | Popular Science

Lifestyle L3AK online update reports NASA Crowdsources Hi-Res Mars Mapping as an Online Game for Kids | Popular Science This goes beyond just providing mild amusement for the Internet hordes. NASA hopes that the crowd-sourcing can harness the efforts of thousands to create better Mars maps and smoother zoom-in views, which might allow scientists to better

Idiots Want Robots to Draw Ads On the Moons Surface – Moon advertising – Gizmodo

Fearless web patrol found this L3AK of interest page Idiots Want Robots to Draw Ads On the Moons Surface – Moon advertising – Gizmodo worth a look. From the page: “A company wants to “license a technology” to draw advertisements on the Moon's surface, which according to them could be watched from Earth. If nobody shuts