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World Topographic Map
July 3, 2009 | NASA and Japan

NASA and Japan released a new digital topographic map of the world. They report that it is the most complete topographic map of Earth ever made, covering high latitude areas omitted on other maps and using a data point spacing of 30 meters.


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