OverlapMaps: Comparing places on Earth

This is a time waster too: OverlapMaps. An Overlap Map is a map of one part of the world that overlaps a different part of the world. Overlap Maps show relative size. United States and Europe: Click to enlarge http://overlapmaps.com/index.php

Every meteorite fall on earth mapped

After the meteor explosion in the sky above Russia's Ural Mountains the Guardian Data Blog:created a map with every meteorite falls. Or at least those we know about. And where are the known meteorite landing places on earth? These impact zones show where scientists have found meteorites, or the impact craters of meteorites, some dating back as far as the year 2,300BC. The data is from the US

Asteroid 2012 DA14 will pass very close to Earth

Asteroid 2012 DA14 will pass very close to Earth-much, much closer than the moon-on Feb.15. Source: WSJ News Graphics @WSJGraphics Visibility map of 2012 DA14:  Click to enlarge (Source: Geert's research blog) Discovered by the LaSagra observatory in southern Spain, the small asteroid 2012 DA14 will pass within about 3.5 Earth radii of the Earth's surface on February 15, 2013.

Pictures Of Earth At Night

Pictures of Earth at night made by NASA's Suomi NPP satellite. Earth’s city lights is a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi NPP satellite. The data was acquired over nine days in April 2012 and 13 days in October 2012. It took 312 orbits to get a clear shot of every parcel of Earth's land surface and islands. (Source: Nasa) Composite map of the world assembled from data

Google Earth update, September, 2012

New high resolution aerial and satellite imagery in Google Earth. Update:  The new update is currently available in Google Earth only and will be coming to Google Maps shortly. Abraj Al Bait, a clock tower in Mecca, Saudi Arabia Google Lat Long: Cities with new high resolution 45° imagery: United States: Bend, OR; Bloomington, IN; Buffalo, NY; Cincinnati, OH; Columbus, IN; Columbus,