I think this is pretty cool NASA project

[j0lly]

LOS ANGELES (AP) - NASA (news - web sites) has begun releasing the most accurate global map ever created - 3-D images of mountains, valleys and plains that were put together from a trillion measurements of the Earth's surface by a space shuttle crew last year.

The digital topographical maps were crunched from the 8 terabytes of data gathered during the 11-day Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, which ended in February 2000. The data - equal to 160 million pages of text - includes precise measurements of 80 percent of the Earth's land mass.


Rest of the article and a photo

 

[chiwawa626]

Thats really cool, i wonder if there will be public access to this later, like on their site u type in an address or point

 

[RU482]

On a similar note, I love looking at Terra Server photos and maps

 

[imported_vr6]

Why don't they finish the job and get the remaining 20%??

 

[Jfur]

very cool ! love to see those images

 

[j0lly]

A few more images here
The detail is just mind boggling
Mt. Etna looks really cool. 10 years from now the internet will somehow be linked to this technology.