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Moon and Mars Satellite Image

October 11th, 2006

In previously post we talk about how to get close up satellite images on the whole planet earth using Google Map and Google Earth. But if you are a looking for “out of the world” real estate than probably you want to use Google Moon and Google Mars.

Using these softwares, you can see detailed satellite images of the moon and its craters up close. There is also a listing of all the historical landmarks of location where the Apollo space ships landed on the moon.

But if you think that the above picture is not the surface of the moon and you believe that the moon is actually made out of cheese, you probably right. If you try to zoom in to close to the surface, you can see that it is actually made out of yummy cheese.

On the other hand, if you are into more reddish backyards, you can view the surface of Mars using the Google Mars. You can also see the elevation overlays and infrared images of the Mars surface. But no cheese this time.

Addition to that, you can even do a search for related locations on Mars. For example, like this search I made by querying the word “face”. Google Mars will go directly to “The Face on Mars” location.

If technology permits, probably one day we can have an application that maps the entire visible stars and galaxies. Better still if the images are real time. Then there will probably millions of people watching and monitoring the sky at a single time. That would definitely be an awesome application don’t you think?

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