Common projections shrink the size of Africa, but experts have long debated whether creating a precise map is possible.

The plane is meant to be there, federal officials say. And it’s on a mission: to improve maps. Outfitted with an elongated “boom” and cruising at altitudes as low as 300 feet above the ...

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