NASA, Japan Release Most Complete Topographic Map of Earth

A combined effort and a great product.
Good example of what could take place on the Moon.
- LRK -

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RELEASE : 09-150
NASA, Japan Release Most Complete Topographic Map of Earth

WASHINGTON -- NASA and Japan released a new digital topographic map of Earth Monday that covers more of our planet than ever before. The map was produced with detailed measurements from NASA's Terra spacecraft.

The new global digital elevation model of Earth was created from nearly 1.3 million individual stereo-pair images collected by the Japanese Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer, or ASTER, instrument aboard Terra. NASA and Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, known as METI, developed the data set. It is available online to users everywhere at no cost.

"This is the most complete, consistent global digital elevation data yet made available to the world," said Woody Turner, ASTER program scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "This unique global set of data will serve users and researchers from a wide array of disciplines that need elevation and terrain information."
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I hope we see something like this for the Moon.

Thanks for looking up with me.

Larry Kellogg

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