In collaboration with agencies in Japan, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has put together a topographical map that covers 99% of the Earth's land mass, a more complete map than was previously available. "We've got everything except a very small part of the South Pole and the North Pole" said JPL's Michael Abrams, the U.S. science team leader for the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (http://asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/) project, also known as ASTER. Full Article at Los Angeles Times