Earth Without Water
Not a drained future — this is what's really under the oceans: ridges, trenches, and drowned coastlines, from NOAA's relief model.
Drag to spin — this is what yours looks like folded.
About this globe
Drain the oceans and this is the planet you get — NOAA's global relief model of the seafloor and land together. The mid-ocean ridges, Earth's longest mountain chain, zip around the globe like seams on a baseball.
The pale halos around continents are the shelves — drowned land, walkable during the ice ages.
How the data was captured
Compiled by NOAA from generations of measurements: ship sonar surveys of the seafloor, satellite altimetry that senses underwater mountains from the way they bulge the sea surface above them, and elevation surveys of the land.
Download free — pick your paper size
Print at 100% scale. Cut along solid lines, fold along dashed lines, glue the tabs. Your PDF can take up to a minute to prepare — hang tight after clicking.
In the US? Print the A4 file and choose “fit to page” — it scales cleanly onto Letter paper.
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Free for personal use, classrooms, and gifts — not for resale. If you post it on your site or share it online, please credit Folding Globes with a link. Copy-paste blurb:
"Earth Without Water" folding paper globe — free from Folding Globes, https://foldingglobes.com/globes/earth-without-water · Data: NOAA NCEI GLOBE Global Relief
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