A deep heat mass beneath the Appalachians appears to have started near a rift between Greenland and North America. Its slow southward journey reveals that ancient tectonic events still influence the ...

As we travel from Mars’s equator toward the planet’s northern regions, we arrive at Coloe Fossae. This landscape is characterized by long, shallow grooves that cut across an area filled with steep ...

Abstract: In this paper, we propose an exploration framework for UGVs in uneven terrain. The uneven environment is presented in a novel map called Plane-Oct, which takes the local geometric features ...

A map of stars in the night sky, created long ago by Native Americans, continues to baffle scientists. An early seventeenth century elk skin star chart from the Skiri Pawnee measures 15 by 22 inches.

Abstract: The purpose of texture measurement is to describe and quantify the texture features of pixels in an image. The accuracy of texture measurement plays a crucial role in determining the ...

Not all maps chart the Earth’s surface — and the David Rumsey Map Center’s newest exhibition in Green Library proves just that. The exhibit “Above & Below: Cartography Beyond Terrain” opened on Oct. 8 ...