As that description notes, the WorldView Legion spacecraft are capable of resolving features as small as 12 inches (30 ...

SpaceTV-1, a set of Ultra High Definition 4k cameras from space streaming company Sen, was delivered to the International Space Station (ISS) last year, and is now broadcasting live views of Earth and ...

Satellite image of the Earth with the Atlantic Ocean in the centre. From space, the Earth looks like a sphere or a ball. About two thirds of the surface is covered with water, and the rest is ...

Last year, more than 40 percent of the Earth’s surface was at least 1.5 ... Roughly one-fifth of the globe has already warmed by more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6F) compared with the late 1800s ...

In the age of Google Earth, watches that triangulate and cars with built-in GPS, there's something about a globe — a spherical representation of the world in miniature — that somehow endures.