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Monday, 13th March 2006 by James Turnbull
Google have quietly launched Google Mars, a Google Maps-like tool to view Elevation, Visible and Infrared images of the Red Planet.
There’s an FAQ explaining the different image modes and Google are apparently working on getting the Mars images into the Google Earth interface.
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Mars FTW!
The highest resolution section is the Gusev Crater located ~6000 miles to the south east of Mlympus Mons. This is the landing site of the Spirit Rover. For scale reference, there is a perfectly round crater just to the south east of the dark patch in that section. It is ~1 – 1.5 miles in diameter.
Here is the URL to another site talking about the Gusev Crater:
http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/e13_e18/images/E17/E1700827.html
Oh yeah, that high def sction is in the Infrared spectrum view, all the other spectrum images are much lower resolutions.
i wanna see google sun!
welcome google to mars
now we can look for marvin the martian?
The north of this image looks like it’s covered in ice or snow
Any ideas on what this might be?
Appears to be something white cylinderical anomaly coming off the Mars surface.
http://www.google.com/mars/#lat=-8.600031&lon=-75.418395&zoom=10&map=infrared
I have discovered an interesting issue while looking at Google Mars. Can anyone tell me what I see? It looks like a white cylinderical object. Any ideas?
http://www.google.com/mars/#lat=-8.600031&lon=-75.418395&zoom=10&map=infrared
erm, all I see is a white dot.
So where’s the Face?
Here’s the “face” http://www.google.com/mars/#lat=40.797177&lon=-9.429016&zoom=9&map=infrared&q=cydonia
hey everyone!!!! right now we are sitting in our classroom looking up info for our marsville project. BORING!!!!!! get us outta her!!!!!!!
hey everyone!!!! right now we are sitting in our classroom looking up info for our marsville project. BORING!!!!!! get us outta her!!!!!!!
rachel and hutch
Get on with your work you two, do you think I can’t see what your upto
mars is not enough….
it is good achievment
If mars is all mud why do we waste time looking for living things there