Explore the Moon with Google Earth

Author: Jeff

20 Jul

Google has today announced that they will now give Google Earth users the ability to explore the Moon.

Not only will you be able to see the the Moon in all of its glory but you will be able to thumb through a bunch of historic images and videos and tour landing sites as you listen to narration by actual Apollo astronauts.

Couple that with the ability to view 3D models of spacecrafts that have landed on the moon and being able to zoom in and see the actual footprints of astronauts and you have yourself a very immersive experience.

Included after the break is a full video run down of the new software including how to access it and what features it will contain.

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Tags: 3d environemnts, astronaut, Desktop PCs, Google, Google Earth, Laptops, moon, software, space

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Google Earth Available on iPhone and iPod Touch

Author: Chris

27 Oct

You are familiar with Google Earth right? Right! You played with it on your PC right? Right! Well then starting today you can take it to your iPhone or iPod touch.

Check the video above to see what Google has included in this mobile version of its Earth-viewing application. Google Earth will take advantage of the touchscreen abilities and of the built-in accelerometer in this iPhone version. The application comes free of charge so go look it up in Apple’s iTunes.