The most accurate terrain map of Antarctica has a resolution of 2 to 8 meters—more than 100 times sharper than previous representations.

It’s made up of 1.4 billion 40×40 foot pixels, according to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management website, which is incredibly high resolution compared with what we had before.

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.

Created using data from the Sentinel-2A satellite, the map reveals Africa at a resolution of 20m per pixel and comprises 180,000 images representing 90TB of data.

Google Maps gets more awesome by the day. Earlier this week, the service started rolling out stunning underwater imagery- if you will, a seaview mode. Now Google took to the Google Maps blog to ...

NASA has given the public its first high-resolution look at asteroid Bennu's global surface. The details are revealed in a newly published global map of the asteroid, one that is currently the ...