Thursday, 21 July 2005

Google launches Google Moon

In honour of the first manned Moon Landing back in July 20, 1969, Google have launched an out of this world version of their Google Maps service - Google Moon. The clever boffins at Google have created a scrollable, zoomable map of the Moon's surface, adding NASA imagery to the interface. Google explains that they put together the map because they figured the best way to commemorate the first Lunar landing would be to let their users "surf around the Lunar surface themselves". Although you can use a sliding scale to zoom into the surface - just like the terrestrial version - and view landing sites, there are limitations to how close to the surface you can zoom because of insufficient NASA imagery. However, viewers zooming all the way in are in for a treat! We won't spoil it for you, but do take a look.