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March 12, 2006

The World Was Not Enough: Google Mars

First we had Google Maps, then we could whoosh around the world with Google Earth. Now, global isn't good enough. Google has gone galactic with Google Mars.

Google Mars is actually quite interesting, even for someone who generally prefers to look to Earth as opposed to the stars. Instead of trying to find your house, you can check out the surface of mars, by elevation, visible light, or with infrared. There are also named indexes for the various land forms like mountains, canyons, dunes, plains, ridges, and craters - just click on the Acidalia Colles and it will take you straight to the hill formation on the map. You can also see where all the spacecraft, rovers and such, have landed, as well as their status. Lastly, there's a great index of articles that refer to specific locations on Mars. What a great little learning tool that leverages technology already available in other Google apps. Check it out!

Posted by sorsha at March 12, 2006 7:22 PM