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- bbbbbetheball, on 10/12/2007, -9/+88probably Uranus
- mikehilb, on 10/12/2007, -4/+58No zipcode search yet, and I couldn't find my house either.
- TKDWILSON, on 10/12/2007, -1/+42Type in FACE. Brings you right to it.
Eric Wilson - fourtythreek, on 10/12/2007, -1/+35There is a Google Moon. http://moon.google.com
The resolution is amazing, make sure you zoom all the way in! - gene, on 10/12/2007, -8/+28What _won't_ they map next?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+25With all the information they collect on you, they'll map your brain next.
- pronouncable, on 10/12/2007, -4/+20They need to map the Death Star.
- andrethegiant, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17they're working on this to be 3D too like Google Earth.
http://www.google.com/mars/about.html
here's an actual video of it running, too:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1622667251598627943 - reefer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16How about a more usefull Google Europe before bothering with other planets!!
- jofer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11For whatever it's worth, some of you may be suprised to find out that we really do know more about the surface of Mars than the surface of our own planet.
I can eaisly go download the data you're seeing in Google Mars from the USGS. It's an about an order of magnitude more detailed than anything that exists for the _entire_ surface of the Earth.
~60% of our planet is covered by >1km of water. Contrary to what most people seem to think, it's almost impossible to measure anything about the ocean floor from a satellite. The predicted bathymetry (what you see in GE over the oceans is a shaded relief version of this) we currently have is based on the elevation of the ocean's surface. We can measure the surface of the oceans to a vertical accuracy of a couple of cm's from space (waves cancel out over several sq. km.), but we can't measure the seafloor without sonar - which requires a ship. The oceans are big... Most places have never had a ship cross over them. (I think I can safely make that statement... especially if I cheat and include land in there :)
The best elevation data we have now for the entire Earth is around 3km spatial resolution. The elevation data you're seeing from Mars is around 500m spatial resolution.
Just something to think about... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14Next Up Google Sun!
- BradFive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13No business locations. No directions. No digg.
- drannok, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10@dotuplink I'm pretty sure he was kidding. How about a sense of humor?
- sabbac, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8they can do mars but not downtown Milwaukee, grrr. but still cool.
- Anim8ir, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10man! I never knew mars was so colorful
- florin, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11Yeah, quite likely Google will buy Sun.
Oh wait, you mean _that_ Sun... Nevermind. - adam, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13They also have Google Moon http://moon.google.com
- elpayo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Wait until they start adding the higher res data that the Mars Reconnaisance Orbiter sends back.
http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/mro/ - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Yea, they dont want you to see the Alien Kingdom on Mars. So they just show there farm land.
- beelz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9no still there
http://www.google.com/mars/ - xswag, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Leave it to Google. I wonder if that 15 yr old that they hired had something to do with this (just joking, but that was a funny joke).
- GentlemanFox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6anyone else notice when they zoom out it's the same image repeated a bunch of times?
i can see some stuff being the same but the blue dot in the same spot 5 times???? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6"This would be awesome if they added this to Google Earth and you could zoom around the solar system."
I've heard from... 'sources' ... that this is being considered as a Google Earth update. Apparently they've been throwing around ideas like a virtual telescope as well, although this is less likely as the scale of the project is, obviously, enormous. - Toshibi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6They should do this with high res photos of the whole solar system, every last bit of it
Would be a great resource, if not exceptionally intensive.
Like on Star Trek! Google Stellar Cartography....GStar, Gastro(sounds bad...), GUniverse? - MoeB, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6i typed dominos pizza but nothing came up
- mortalfunk, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8check out mount olympus. it's the largest volcano in the solar system. a freakin 600km. this google mars it's pretty wicked.
- beelz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7sweet you can click on Spacecraft up on the left and it shows where all the landers are. nice google owns.
- detrate, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6http://mars.google.com redirects to >> http://www.google.com%2fmars%2f/
- Zelex, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Yeah, thats great. But what I really need is driving directions.
- dreold, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5BTW, regarding the infamous "black strip" that people found in Google Earth and which was assumed to be hiding something "really, really secret and important" in Siberia:
There are plenty of those on Mars, so either the Martians have a thriving Militry-Industrial Complex and are co-operating with Google or it is just an issue of improper alignment/missing data...
Occam's Razor anyone? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7anyone notice that those three mountains look amazingly like the pyramids in cairo??
- Mike89, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4http://www.google.com/logos/mars06.gif
(for those of you trying to click through ;)) - allenu, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Freakin awesome: Type in 'cydonia' and it'll show you where the so-called face on Mars is. Nicely done, GOOG. Type in 'viking' to see where the viking landers landed.
- matt.rubin, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7haha i like the russian rovers, lost contact before touchdown, lost contact 20 second after landing, failed to decend
then USA operated fo 6 years, operated for 3.5 years, operated for 3 months, landed in 2004 still working
and british failed during decent - hardran3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Celestia. http://www.shatters.net/celestia/
- allarise, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5i dunno - after that spaniard last week found a crater no one had ever seen using google earth, it's not out of the realm.
- camiller, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yeah, when moon.google.com came out it couldn't provide driving directions from my house on earth to tyco crater either, whats up with that?
- godber, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Grab the torrent here: http://themis.asu.edu/bt/valles3d.mpg.torrent
- Anth, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5MARS BITCHES.
Anyways, yea. It does make sense considering that orbiter is set to take tons of hi-res images of the planet (both of visible light and other sorts of spectal imaging). - dombi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3How about a 3D fly-by video of Valles Marineris (the Grand Canyon of Mars):
http://themis.asu.edu/valles_video - ThankTheCheese, on 10/12/2007, -6/+9My first thought was "AWSOME" like you, but then when I started lookign at it I kinda thought...it's like a multi-coloured rock.
I mean, it's still very cool just because it's mars, but in practice it isn't actually that interesting. at least I didnt think so, just my opinion of course. - jimio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2'Olympus Mons' you mean? Mount Olympus is in Greece.
The Caldera is as wide as France, but its only about 30,000m tall NOT 600,000!!! - zetsurin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2very cool indeed. intel mac version please :)
- wxjunkie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What's the point of this? Google mapped like a tiny square. Just like they did with the moon.
- aubray1741, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Too true, actually. You can thank the space race for that.
- snyy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2hi res image of the "face" on mars
http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/extended_may2001/face/face_E03-00824_proc.gif - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Actually, Google Earth in its former identity as Keyhole, already had a 3D Mars database. According to the "About" at Google Mars they plan to re-release it for Google Earth soon. There is also a Mars add-on for Google Earth you can look at right now. Read more at:http://www.gearthblog.com/
- CosmicJustice, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It isn't useful, but it's Google so it generates buzz.
- tsupersonic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2They'll map all the planets in the Milky Way, but that will take a long long time.
- dombi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Here you can listen to how Google Mars was created:
http://www.randomcasts.com/law/stulaw027.mp3 -
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