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.'"

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Re:HaHa

[iapetus]

And who says Google doesn't have a sense of humor?

Well, The Register says they don't have a sense of humour...

So when's Mars coming up?

[Pegasus]

Seriously, with all the imagery Nasa has, Google Mars would be nice too.

Lunokhod Soviet moon robots?

[evilandi]

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).

Here is a GPL PowerMap.

[tetrahedrassface]

We run #space on freenode.

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.

So Close and yet so far.

[955301]

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.