Rand McNally, look out. NASA scientists and Defense Department mapmakers are assembling billions of radar measurements made from the space shuttle Endeavour to produce what they say will be the world’s best topographic map.
PEAKS AND VALLEYS. A computer-generated view of California’s San Gabriel Mountains as if seen from a point above the Malibu coastline. Los Angeles is in the foreground at right.
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