Launchpad: Maps

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What are maps and how are they used? Learn how NASA uses robotic spacecraft to make geologic maps of the topography and composition of places like Saturn, Titan, or Vesta, and how the US Geological Survey helps with this new field of astrogeology.

Published on: October 01, 2014

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