Shuttle Radar Maps Improve Worldwide Topographic Data
TOPO MAPS U.S. government mapmakers have used data generated by a synthetic aperture radar mounted on the space shuttle Endeavour over a 10-day period in February 2000 to produce the highest quality topographic map of the world yet, at least beneath the 60-deg. inclination orbit the shuttle followed...
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