March 14, 2008

Google takes over Outer Space

Awhile back Google's Labs created a nifty way to browse over the Mars Landscape(You can see the elevation of the planet through the infrared map). Afterwards, Google Moon was released, showing all Apollos reference to specific locations on our Moon.

Today, Google has released Google Sky. Now you can "explore the far reaches of our universe." Well, not really, because we have seen very little of the big sky, but you can see some pretty interesting things...all the planets in comparable size to the rest of the universe(the part that we know of currently), certain locations astronomers have been studying, constellations, etc. The constellations are actually drawn out with the connecting stars to make it easier to point out. So, along with Earth, Maps, Moon & Mars, you can explore deep space with Google Sky.

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