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Google Moon Debuts
Ian writes "From the FAQ: 'One small step for Google...
On July 20, 1969, man first landed on the Moon. A few decades later, we're pleased to cut you in on the action. Google Moon is an extension of Google Maps and Google Earth that, courtesy of NASA imagery (thanks, guys!), enables you to surf the Moon's surface and check out the exact spots that the Apollo astronauts made their landings.'"
Well, The Register says they don't have a sense of humour...
++ Say to Elrond "Hello.".
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Google has a man on the moon as it's cartoon today....
This moon feature is beyond cool- but may be another productivity sapping item for me at work. What I wonder is if we will get full zooming. My understanding is that google maps is purposely limited so people can't "see swingsets" in back yards (i.e. pedophiles).
What will this do to Hoagland's career if they do this for other planets, say Mars? Is Cydonia over?
And All I Ask is a Tall Ship And a Star to Steer Her By
Seriously, with all the imagery Nasa has, Google Mars would be nice too.
I note that Google have conveniently forgotten to place the Soviet (Russian) Lunokhod moon robots on the map (at Sea of Rains and Le Monnier, Mare Serenitatis).
Andrew Oakley - www.aoakley.com
One of our members has created this:
http://hobbiton.thisside.net/advmap_moon.html
Its a take off of google maps, but extends some some functionality into it. It looks really nice. Enjoy!
Stop by #space sometime for a visit.
I wish they would have taken this more seriously. The moon actually have a massive number of named points of interest which would be nice to be able to look up.
Personally, I name all of my software projects after features named during the Apollo landing missions. For a second there, I thought I might be able to provide a url in the javadocs to a map of the actual landmark for the team. While not very useful, it certainly would have been educational.
You are checking your backups, aren't you?
The high resolution images completed missed half of Edinburgh in Scotland, and imaged a large number of fields to the West instead
At least we know which field to use for a picnic.
The most minding bending image I've seen is of Wilshire Blvd in LA, where all the buildings seem to be leaning at different angles. I assume this is due to photographs being taken from different perspectives.
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Except that wit the resolution of any of the cameras currently available, objects like the lander and rover would be less than pixel wide. IE: Basicaly invisible.
So unless you have the cash to move one of those secret spy satellites from earth or lunar orbit (Because they are too far away if left in earth orbit), the only way you're going to see them is to go land on the moon again.
=Smidge=
My site lists as many of the impacts and landings as I could find, both Russian and U.S. Despite the good info, its interface kind of sucks, particularly in light of Google's nice one -- looks like it's time to get hacking Google Moon.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."--Feynman
"Imagery ©2005 NASA"?
NASA is part of the US Federal Government, which does not hold copyrights -- its works are in the public domain.
The correct tag would have been "©2005 Google - Imagery courtesy of NASA" or somesuch, but NASA can't hold a copyright.
Other than that, interesting imagery with a good Easter egg.