One of the best things I ever got to do in school was make geologic maps. There are compasses, hand lenses, rock hammers, measuring staffs and colored pencils involved. You get to go out ...

Images captured by NASA's Dawn spacecraft were woven together to create geologic maps of the giant asteroid Vesta. The maps — the most detailed ones yet of of Vesta's surface features — serve ...

Many of these geologic maps had been completed after release of ... The associated database contains more than a dozen interrelated tables that make this release special; and unlike previous ...

The first effort to map the geology of the Moon was by the USGS ... These units are the mountains that make up the rim of the basin as well as the regional highlands around Copernicus, which ...

A project to map the impact sequence on the asteroid Vesta is helping scientists compare its history to other solar system objects. A team of 14 scientists led by David Williams of Arizona State ...

Now, the United States Geological Survey has released the first geologic map of the Moon. Many scientists and astronomers have strived to understand the lunar surface. USGS, in a collaboration ...