New Global Terrain Map

As announced in the BBC News this morning, a nearly complete terrain map has just been released and will cover 99% of the surface area of the earth. It is available for public download and use here, though it seems that due to the volume of interest in this project, the number of downloads have been capped for a limited time to prevent the site from crashing. Those of us who are slightly less hardcore will hopefully be able to download and explore the ASTER Global Digital Elevation Model (ASTER GDEM) at some point in the near future!