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#30DayMapChallenge | Day 5: Earth (Miniature Globes Edition) Every day is Earth Day in this “miniature globes” edition of the #30daymapchallenge! Easily, today’s dataset for the theme “Earth” is NASA’s Blue Marble dataset. #cartography #handcrafted #mappycraft #gischat

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I separated each gore in Photoshop, adjusted the colors individually for consistency, removed the yellowing, and then stitched them back together before printing.

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You might wonder—how does a historical globe fit under the “My Data” theme? When examining the original atlas, you’ll notice inconsistencies in color across the 24 gores—some are more blue, some more green—and yellowing along the equator from age.

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Wanmei L 🌎🛰️ @mapsbyw.com · 03/11/2025

#30DayMapChallenge | Day 4: My data (Miniature Globes Edition) For today’s theme, “My Data,” I created a miniature globe based on Adolf Henze’s Erd-Globus atlas, one of the largest printed globes of the 19th century. #cartography #handcrafted #mappycrafts #gischat

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#30DayMapChallenge | Day 3: Polygons (Miniature Globes Edition) For today’s theme, “Polygons,” I created a miniature globe depicting the global extent of ice sheets during the Last Glacial Maximum, approximately 18,000 years ago. #cartography #handcrafted #mappycraft #gischat

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Wanmei L 🌎🛰️ @mapsbyw.com · 02/11/2025

#30DayMapChallenge | Day 2: Lines (Miniature Globes Edition) For today’s theme, “Lines,” I created a miniature globe of NASA SVS’ Global Sea Surface Currents and Temperature visualization. Look closely to see the mesmerizing ocean eddies!

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Wanmei L 🌎🛰️ @mapsbyw.com · 01/11/2025

#30DayMapChallenge | Day 1: Points (Miniature Globes Edition) Happy first day of the #30DayMapChallenge! For today’s theme, “Points,” I created a miniature globe using NASA’s Black Marble dataset, which captures the glow of artificial light across Earth at night. #gis #cartography #gischat

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This satellite image highlights the confluence of three of Guyana’s major rivers—the Cuyuni, the Mazaruni, and the Essequibo. Darker waters likely contained less suspended sediment. Light brown waters likely contained enormous amounts of fine-grained sediment🧪

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Reshaping the Forests Around Kisangani: This map details where forest losses have occurred around Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo, between 2001 and 2024, older losses in purple and pink and more recent losses in orange and yellow 🧪

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An astronaut aboard the International Space Station captured this downward-looking photo of part of Mozambique’s northern coast in southeastern Africa. The light-toned Rio Lúrio snakes across the top half of the scene. Its delta empties into Baía do Lúrio, which opens into the Mozambique Channel.🧪

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Cooper Creek Replenishes Lake Eyre: Floodwaters in Cooper Creek began filling Lake Eyre in late July. These false-color images show the shift in contributing tributaries and the changes in the lake’s extent.

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Australia’s Howick River: Winding across the Jeannie catchment in northern Queensland, the river sustains diverse ecosystems on its way to the Coral Sea.🧪

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Greenland Ice Sheet Gets a Refresh: A moderately intense season of surface melting left part of the ice sheet dirty gray in summer 2025, but snowfall has since freshened its appearance. 🧪

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An astronaut aboard the International Space Station captured this photograph of the glow of city lights, the aurora, and a rising Moon illuminate the night along the northwest coast of North America 🧪

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Dark Skies Over the Great Basin: Far from large urban areas, Great Basin National Park offers unencumbered views of the night sky and opportunities to study distant stars and exoplanets. 🧪

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Browns Canyon National Monument: The remote and rugged landscape in central Colorado is known for outdoor recreation by day and exceptional stargazing by night. 🧪

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An astronaut aboard the International Space Station captured this photograph of the Kamchatka Peninsula. The highly oblique image gives an enhanced sense of the topography. Kamchatka Peninsula experiences frequent tectonic activity 🧪

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Sprawling Gifford Fire Scorches California: The fast-growing blaze charred more than 100,000 acres in the span of a week 🧪

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Quabbin Reservoir is one of the largest unfiltered drinking water supplies in the United States. It supplies water to nearly 2.7 million people in the Greater Boston area, as well as three towns in Western Massachusetts 🧪

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An astronaut aboard the International Space Station captured this long-exposure photo of brilliant illumination coming from airglow, lightning, and stars

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Bloom Time in the Barents Sea: Arctic waters near Norway’s Bear Island teemed with tiny plant-like organisms that painted the seas turquoise-blue and green 🧪

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Wildfire Sweeps Through Southern France: The Aude fire rapidly burned around 16,000 hectares in August 2025, becoming the country’s largest fire since 1949 🧪

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Winds whipped across the coast of central and southern Peru on July 31, 2025, lofting dust and sand particles into the air. Giant plumes of the particles blew inland, where they turned skies orange, reduced visibility, and degraded air quality

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Decades of retreat at the Steller Glacier in Alaska have left Berg Lake with new plumbing Satellites have observed the glacier’s thinning and retreat since the 1970s Satellite imagery now reveals that this retreat has reworked the outflow of Berg Lake, which fills and drains annually

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The Monroe Canyon fire in central Utah experienced rapid growth during dry, windy days in late July 2025, creating hazy skies throughout the region

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