One of These Days…Bang! Zoom! To Google Moon!
April 11, 2008
Want to check out where, exactly, the eagle had landed? From the folks who brought you Google Earth (namely Google) comes Google Moon. Now your students can explore the Sea of Tranquility from their desks.
Google Moon works a lot like Google Maps and Google Earth except, you know, on the moon. In addition to satellite imagery, Google Moon has facts from all six manned missions to the moon, including samples of moon rocks, descriptions of gravity experiments, and a few words about moonquakes. Students can also get closeup views of the lunar surface, and a little background information on the brave astronauts who hurtled through the cosmos and landed on the famed green cheese orb.
Sadly, though, Google’s normally excellent driving directions don’t seem to work with Google Moon. -BILL FERRIS
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