High quality 3d animation. Elements of this image furnished by NASA. Earth 02 Sun rise around the Equator The sun rises over the Equator, with the lights across the countries going out as dawn grows.

Humans have been making maps for as long as they’ve been exploring the Earth. Some of their cartographic maps went on to ...

Flat maps, designed to offer a consistent representation of Earth, reveal inaccuracies in countries' sizing. Some nations near the Poles appear significantly larger than they truly are, while ...

The National Hurricane Center's website and maps now reflect the official name (at least in the U.S.) of the Gulf of America.

"I'll always remember the first time I saw those iridescent clouds and was sure at first it was some color artifact." ...

This artist’s visualization of WASP-127b, a giant gas planet located about 520 light-years from Earth, shows its newly discovered supersonic jet winds that move around the planet’s equator. With a ...

The moon's ascending node (the point in the sky where its orbit crosses the ecliptic from south to north) is moving westward ...

There it is, the Equator. It marks the difference between ... After watching the film, teachers could use a base map to explore the make up of the world and where the features explored in the ...

The researchers conclude that powerful jetstream winds around the equator would explain this unexpected result. Further building up their weather map, the team also found that the poles are cooler ...

The map projections used are either Cylindrical Equidistant (CE) or Lambert Conformal (LC). The Lambert Conformal projection takes three parameters; the central longitude (in degrees east of the ...