fbpx
March 10, 2025

The Nov. 1988 map of Everest, which took 4 years to produce,… – April 5, 2023 at 05:10PM

9dd5dee6fc751f08b78c7716c880483f82dfe1e3

The Nov. 1988 map of Everest, which took 4 years to produce, relied on a high-resolution camera carried on the Columbia space shuttle and 160 overlapping aerial images taken from a Learjet flying at 40,000 feet to map the region’s 380 sq. miles.

by @NatGeoMaps

%d bloggers like this: