The Mercator projection, a cylindrical map introduced by Geradus Mercator in 1569, distorts the true size of countries on ...
A University of Derby study led by Dr. Phethean proposes Earth has six continents, not seven. Using advanced geological ...
Scientists released an update to a model that maps the ever-moving pole and has significant implications for navigation ...
This does have its drawbacks, as the Earth is round, but pages are flat, so what we see on a map is slightly distorted.Globes and maps are how we’ve seen the world for hundreds of years.
NASA's SWOT satellite maps nearly of all Earth's water (video) — Watch NASA's SWOT satellite unfold in space to map Earth's water in stunning video ...
Researchers have discovered what may be the world's oldest three-dimensional map, located within a quartzitic sandstone megaclast in the Paris Basin.
The Mariana Trench in the Pacific is the deepest ocean location on Earth ... to map the entire ocean floor. The latest status of its Seabed 2030 project was announced to coincide with World ...
The maps here show the world as it is now ... There are more than five million cubic miles of ice on Earth, and some scientists say it would take more than 5,000 years to melt it all.