Last July, on the 36th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon, Google launched Google Moon, which provides a map-based view of the moon similar to that provided by Google Earth (though with a surprise for those of you who zoom in all the way). Now, ZDNet is reporting that Google has gone where no web site has gone before.
Now, we have Google Mars, providing a variety of views of the Red Planet.
And the Washington Post has this interesting comment from Google about the launch of the new website:
According to one Google-focused blog, the company plans to put images of the other major planets of the solar system online, as well. It has secured domain names such as GoogleMercury, GoogleVenus and GoogleJupiter, even though it appears that image data of other planets isn’t available.
“We don’t have anything to announce about other planets at this time,” a Google spokeswoman said.
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