Using data collected by NASA's Messenger mission between 2010 and 2015, scientists plotted a color-coded map of the Victoria Quadrangle, a crater-filled region in Mercury's northern hemisphere ...

U.S astronomers have created the first complete geologic map of Jupiter’s highly volcanic moon, Io. With 425 volcanoes dotting its surface, Io is more than 25 times more volcanically active than ...

World's First Geologic Map Was Far Ahead of Its Time. A map drawn on papyrus more than 3,000 years ago helped spur the search for mineral wealth in modern Egypt.

You get to draw all that information on the map, and then color it in. It's really fun and also challenging, and very satisfying. Some of the most memorable geologic maps I've seen have been of ...

It took 16 years and data from four orbiting spacecraft to assemble, but the U.S. Geological Survey’s new map of Mars is awesome. In beautiful color and excellent detail, the map shows the ...

With the new map, lowerregions extending up to 5 miles (7.5 km) below the standard surfacelevel are shown in indigo, with the highest geological features, upto 5 miles above the surface, displayed ...

Completion of this map celebrates the 200th anniversary of world’s first geologic map by William Smith of England in 1815.” This map detail, of the Anchorage area, shows the city spread out on a plain ...