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Using radar imagery collected from nine years of Cassini flybys, researchers were able to patch together the first global topographic map of Titan, published in the July 2013 issue of Icarus.
ENGADGET
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The first of its kind to take place in Nepal, the symposium will attempt to map existing photo collections and archives all over the country, discuss challenges in their archiving and encourage participants to network and explore ways of working together in the future.
UNESCO: Symposium on ��The State of Nepal��s Photo Archives�� 6 November 2012 | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
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The genome project, which the government began in 1987, aimed to speed the gene-hunting effort by providing the first full map of all 3 billion base pairs that make up human DNA. (It was not necessary, in this effort, to run through all the pairs on each set of chromosomes, or 6 billion pairs.) And because the base pairs come in only four varieties, they are digital and ideal for computer decoding.
FORBES: On The Cover/Top Stories
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To make landfall where the first Europeans had, meet the Naturals, mine the past, and map its memory in the present?
NPR: Unearthing History in 'A Voyage Long and Strange'
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In 1877, when the Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli drew the first detailed map of Mars, he imagined the planet as an earthly paradise.
NEWYORKER: The Martian Chroniclers
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The beginning of peace and hope, what announced today in addition to being the implementation of the first article of the road map that was established by the quartet.
CNN: Transcript of Mahmoud Abbas' speech at Egypt summit
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It makes sense to carry a map of the resort at first, in order not to get disoriented among its bridges, lagoons, six water slides, outdoor bars, seven pool complexes and 17 restaurants.
FORBES: Magazine Article
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This was the first step in a much-needed national consultation process to draw a road map for educational reform.
UNESCO: EDUCATION
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The Seattle district requires teachers to give the math and reading Measures of Academic Progress exam, or MAP, to students in first through ninth grade two or three times a year.
WSJ: Seattle Teachers Protest Exams
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When I first started investing in listed REITs over 20 years ago, there were only three countries on the map.
FORBES: Why Portfolio Manager Andrew Duffy Prefers REIT Mutual Funds To ETFs