Geologic maps are used to locate natural resources, such as water or oil, or the best place to hunt for fossils, but they can also be eye catching works of art. Sharon Purdy A low-lying topographic ...

A research team led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences has released a new high-resolution geologic map of the Moon. The map includes discoveries made in the last ten years, like an updated chronology ...

ONE OF THE reasons I became a geologist was the maps. I will never have enough walls in my house for all the beautiful geologic maps I'd love to hang. But these maps are also full of information about ...

Europa is an icy moon of Jupiter that harbors an ocean and might support alien life. Despite several flyby missions of Europa, no full geologic map of the moon previously existed. Scientists released ...

ABU ZAWAL, Egypt — If you’re searching for gold in Egypt’s Eastern Desert, you should bring water, a spare tire, an exploration geologist, and a good map. By 10:30 a.m. we’d already made use of all ...

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 geology of ...

More than 400 years after its discovery by astronomer Galileo Galilei, the largest moon in the solar system — Jupiter’s moon Ganymede — has finally claimed a spot on the map. A group of scientists led ...

Have you ever wanted to study the Moon’s surface in exacting detail? Now’s your chance. The USGS (with help from NASA and the Lunar Planetary Institute) has released the first complete geologic map of ...

Maps are an important tool for learning about the world around you. Some maps are designed to show what roads will take you where, and others are designed to tell you about the actual land in a given ...

For the first time, the entire lunar surface has been completely mapped and uniformly classified. The lunar map, called the 'Unified Geologic Map of the Moon,' will serve as the definitive blueprint ...

Before there were rock stars, one man put them on the map. That man was William “Strata” Smith, and his map of the rocks at the surface in England, Wales, and part of Scotland—completed in 1815—was ...