The map above shows planet Earth’s reflectivity, or albedo, as the proportion of the sun’s energy that’s bounced back to space. Ice-covered regions are the most reflective, ...

Fortunately, there’s an interactive map that can help with that. As Boing Boing explains, TimeMap.org combines the what, who, ...

An instrument aboard the Terra satellite has generated the most complete digital topographic map of the Earth ever made, covering 99% of the planet. Close. Advertisement. Skip to content.

By combining seismographic readings of roughly 3,000 quakes of magnitude 5.5 and greater the geologists can produce a three-dimensional model of the structures under the Earth's surface.

GOCE managed to map the gravitational strength of the Earth beneath it to a precision of 10 –5 m/s 2. While we commonly quote the gravitational force as 9.81 m/s 2 , this satellite was measuring ...

That’s 14 per cent of Earth’s land surface, ... Assuming it had the photographs, it could map Earth in about six days. That’s something that humanity still hasn’t managed to do.

This small screengrab of a map of the Earth's winds circling the globe doesn't do justice to the big animated versions you can see here and here. The maps were created by Tokyo-based software ...