March 21, 2006
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Google Planets
They finally have Google Mars! Yeah, I know they debuted it several days ago, but I’ve been waiting for something like this for a long time. I mean, Google Moon
was cool enough, but Mars was the inevitable next step, and so much
more interesting at that. I spent like 1-2 hours just soaring around
looking at the natural landmarks as soon as I saw it was up…There’s the Valles Marineris, making the Grand Canyon look like a backyard ditch:
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And of course the “Face” on Mars. But I much prefer the “Happy Face Crater”.
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Though I settled on where NASA’s Spirit rover landed.
Yeah,
I know, I’m kind of a nerd. The next best thing after this would be
images from Titan and Europa. Venus would be good, but the cloud cover
would dominate any image of the planet. All that’s stopping a Google
Titan and Google Europa is, you know, the satellite images of either
place. KF
