Posted on 03/13/2009 5:11:37 PM PDT by KevinDavis
Google has upgraded its Red Planet browser to reveal fresh as well as long-faded views of Mars, marking the latest advance in a visualization revolution.
Today's add-ons for Google Earth 5.0 include a "Live From Mars" layer that incorporates the latest available imagery from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft, as well as historical maps of the planet's "canali" as seen by 19th-century astronomers and guided tours that are narrated by NPR's Ira Flatow and Bill Nye the Science Guy.
(Excerpt) Read more at cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com ...
Going to check it out right now.
Are there pictures of the flag our astronauts left?
Yeah you can even zoom in and see the footprints.
The secret bases are blurred out though
Jonathan Winters used to freak out some guests who visited him. He had a HUGE map of the moon on one wall, with little pin-flags here and there. The visitors would ask about them and Winters would put on a guilty/secrective face and say "I can't talk about it!, I can't talk!"
Winters was awesome. People today don’t have a clue what they’re missing.
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