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Most Detailed Image Of Earth Yet

Posted by Hemos on from the lookin'-purty dept.

TomDM writes "BBC News has a story on how scientists created the most accurate and detailed image of our planet yet, composing the image from satellite data, and adjusting it for the correct colours. "

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  1. United Corporations of Earth by resistant · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This oddly follows a story earlier today about continuing corporate mega-merging.

    When the $%#@&! does the mothership return for their regular pickup, anyway?

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  2. Re:Where? by pricorde · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Man, it already exists.
    Grab the latest demo from x-plane. The worldwide environment to be soon released (version 6.10) is composed from the USGS GTOPO30, USGS landuse map and NIMA world vector map (roads, rivers, electric lines et al).

  3. Re:I've been working on this myself. by ChazeFroy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The first people to make use of this would be al Qaeda.