When most of us look out at the ocean, we see a mostly flat blue surface stretching to the horizon. It's easy to imagine the ...

Salameh, E. and Tarawneh, A. (2026) Tectonic Structures and Their Consequential Nontectonic Deformations —The Case of the ...

As a Navy mathematician in the 1950s and beyond, she played an unheralded but foundational role in making possible the global satellite-based mapping system.

Dark matter is a mysterious substance that glues galaxies together. This map from the James Webb Space Telescope could help ...

Marie Tharp's topographical maps increased our understanding of both the ocean floor and the processes that move the earth's ...

A new study has examined how future human missions to Mars could access one of the planet's most vital resources—water. The ...

Abstract: Surface reflectance is an important data product in imaging spectroscopy for obtaining surface information. The complex retrieval of surface reflectance, however, critically relies on ...

The Antarctic Ice Sheet is the largest mass of ice on Earth and holds about 70 percent of the planet's freshwater ...

The team used satellite imagery, computer modeling, and an array of different methods to map the ice sheets and glacial flows ...

"Our IFPA map of Antarctica’s subglacial landscape reveals that an enormous level of detail about the subglacial topography of Antarctica can be inverted from satellite observations of the ice surface ...

A new map compiled by Newsweek using data from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) shows how Greenland’s rare earth mineral resources compare to the rest of the world. Rare earth minerals are a ...