In the conterminous United States, most of the barren land belongs to deserts and mountains in the west.
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Barren Land
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Snow cover mapped using snowflakes
To show snow cover across the United States, Althea Archer for the USGS…
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Mapping the sea floor
Jon Keegan on how USGS researchers collected data for 125 square miles of…
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Where America is expanding in developed areas
Zach Levitt and Jess Eng for The Washington Post mapped newly developed areas…
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First unified geologic map of the moon
The USGS released a unified geologic map of the moon on a 1:5,000,000-scale…
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BellTopo Sans is is a free typeface based on maps from 1800s
While working on maps inspired by USGS maps from the 1800s, Sarah Bell…
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Geologic map of Mars
The USGS released a more detailed geologic map of Mars, not just renderings…
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A quarter century of satellite imagery
In collaboration between USGS, NASA and TIME, Google released a quarter century of…
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