Friday, January 25, 2008
Hello! Why didn't anyone tell me about Google Moon? All this time I have heard people's thoughts on Google Earth, which really is a cool app, but Google Moon is WAY cooler than that. You can get maps of Earth anywhere. But how many places can you get a map of the moon?"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."
IN short, all of you fellow geeks out there who sometimes wish you could up and leave Earth and take a vacation on the moon. Now you can! Well, no you can't, but at least now you can have more visuals of what it would be like. Quiet and dark.
It is more than just interactive mappage though, it has a little history and science lesson attached. You can read about the Apollo Series and chart it out. Pretty snifty if I do say so myself.
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