April 2008
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
15h 52m
English
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295 - VIEW THE MOON AND MORE ON GOOGLE MAPS
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Zoom into the Moon, Mars, and other large chunks of matter
oating near our home planet.
You’ve probably used Google Earth or Google Maps to get a better picture of this planet. Other
planets are mapped by Google too, though. Curious about the surface of the Moon, for instance?
Just go to http://google.com/moon/ and take a look, as pictured in Figure 11-21. You will be able to
toggle between different views, and nd special background information on the landing of the lunar
module Eagle during the Apollo mission in 1969, when Neil Armstrong stepped onto the Moon’s
surface.
In similar vein, Google also has a special Google Maps–style service displaying planet Mars at
http://google.com/mars/, as pictured in Figure 11-22.
Also, the desktop program Google Earth—which you can download for free at http://earth.google.
com/download-earth.html—contains a special sky view. To see, it pick View→Switch to Sky from
the Google Earth menu, for a result as shown in Figure 11-23. Google Sky is also available as a web
application at http://sky.google.com.
Google Sky is a powerful tool for locating more than just planets and stars: you can locate deep-sky
objects such as nebulae and clusters by searching for their catalog numbers (for exam
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