Flight To Radar-Map Earth From Space

A NASA space shuttle mission in November will map nearly 80% of the Earth's land surface in 3D, providing the most-complete digital topographic map of the Earth ever assembled. The 11-day Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) will use a dual-antenna C- and X-band interferometric synthetic aperture...

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