This double-sided pancake map is the most accurate flat map of Earth ever created. (Image credit: J. Richard Gott, Robert Vanderbei and David Goldberg) ...

This double-sided map has smaller distance errors than any single-sided flat map — the previous record-holder being a 2007 map by Gott with Charles Mugnolo, a 2005 Princeton alumnus. In fact, this map ...

This double-sided pancake map is the most accurate flat map of Earth ever created. (Image credit: J. Richard Gott, Robert Vanderbei and David Goldberg) ...

However, flat maps show something quite different. Similarly, India on a map looks minute compared to Greenland. However, with a land size of 3,166,414 sq km, it is in fact larger.

Flat map of Jupiter in radio waves with ALMA (top) and visible light with the Hubble Space Telescope (bottom). The eruption in the South Equatorial Belt is visible in both images.

While this does confirm that Google Maps is not part of the flat earth movement, it also speaks to the importance and impact of the company's other mapping service Google Earth.The latter has ...

The sizing of Greenland and Africa is now correct.Image: google mapsTruthfully, Greenland is quite small in comparison to Africa, both in real life and now depicted correctly on this 3D Globe. However ...