This World Map Is So Accurate It Folds Into a Globe Unlike the standard map of the world, designed in the 1500s, this new map doesn't distort Greenland to make it look the same size as Africa.

And a cool fun fact: the globe’s LED rings are actually controlled by a computer with the same amount of memory–a scant 64kb–as the computers that landed Apollo 11 on the actual moon.

Peter Bellerby made his first globe for his father, after he could not find one accurate or attractive enough. ... Artists paint globes at a studio in London, Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024.

The globe is a 1/20 million replica of the moon exactly to scale that features the exact lunar terrain as pictured by NASA, down to every crater, ridge, and slight point of elevation.

Like the originals, the 40 hand-painted globes in the Churchill series will each measure 20 inches in diameter. If you have an ally across the Atlantic who’ll be on the phone plotting with you ...