An article I saw at NationalGeographic.com appealed to my childhood fascination with Antarctica:
A thousand images from NASA’s Landsat satellite data, taken mostly between 1999 and 2001, were pieced together to create a first true-color map with ten times greater resolution than previous images of Antarctica.
The map is so detailed it includes features that are as small as half the size of a basketball court.
The maps, covering Antarctica down to about 82.5° South (Landsat’s orbit apparently doesn’t permit imaging within 7.5° of the poles), are reportedly available at the USGS, and the imagery is fascinating. (However, when I revisited the site while drafting this post, the server seemed unwilling to display the interactive map.)
