Maps are all imperfect because they portray the globe in just two dimensions. Most maps, like the Mercator projection, distort the size or shape of landmasses, which skews our perceptions of how ...

Esri, a spatial analytics firm based in California, has put together a animated map of California wildfires over the last century. Watch how quickly COVID-19 is spreading around the U.S. and world ...

checking for hazards and moving around any problematic objects as it goes. The animation covers the entire 18.7 miles (about 30 kilometers) traveled by Perseverance over the last 44 months ...