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Endeavour set to map Earth

Friday January 28 by Claudia bourneBBC News Science
The space shuttle Endeavour will be launched on Monday for an 11-day mission to produce the most complete three-dimensional map of the Earth's surface ever madeThe Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) will produce the data with a 60-metre (196-foot) radar mast, the longest rigid structure ever deployed in space.





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