World texture map with bathymetry, centred on Europe.
Image ID : EBB_060
Width9,000 pixels
Height4,500 pixels
300 dpi print width30.0 inches76.2 centimetres
300 dpi print height15.0 inches38.1 centimetres
This texturemap of the world combines a natural-colour land surface with a colour-coded ocean depth map. A cloud-free mosaic of thousands of images taken by NOAA Polar Orbiter weather satellites was combined with ocean depth data to reveal sea floor features such as the continental shelves, seamounts, trenches and mid-ocean ridges. Major lakes and river systems are also highlighted using data from a hydrological map. The texture map is in the Eckert III projection, centred on the Greenwich meridian (0 degrees longitude), keeping the continents largely intact, with the Pacific Ocean split by the edges of the map.
 
Credit : Planetary Visions Limited.
 
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