Google non-Earth

sdoig · 07-18-2005, 09:57 PM

Others may have noticed this, but I just discovered that if you pull way back up into space and look carefully, you'll see that the nice folks at Google Earth have supplied an astronomically real background of stars. Now if we could only zoom into some of those!

Steve Doig

grav8e · 07-18-2005, 10:08 PM

perhaps someday we'll have Google Moon and Google Mars...

sethpen · 07-19-2005, 04:37 AM

Maybe they will aquire this software =]

http://www.shatters.net/celestia/

Mickey · 07-19-2005, 04:38 AM

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Originally Posted by sethpen

Maybe they will aquire this software =]

http://www.shatters.net/celestia/

I've heard whispers of that, but nothing concrete. I wouldn't doubt it, though.

araT · 07-19-2005, 05:19 AM

Awesome find!
*Tara goes back to fiddling with it!

T.

grav8e · 07-20-2005, 02:36 PM

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Originally Posted by grav8e

perhaps someday we'll have Google Moon and Google Mars...

hehe...seems I was prescient...

http://moon.google.com/

birq · 07-20-2005, 02:56 PM

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http://moon.google.com/

That is great. Did you zoom all the way in?

grav8e · 07-20-2005, 03:35 PM

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Originally Posted by birq

That is great. Did you zoom all the way in?

Hehe...that's awesome! You can always count on Google to have a sense of humor...

Watcher · 08-13-2005, 06:09 PM

Try Celestia. It's a free program that maps out the galaxy. All of the planets are in really impressive detail and you can even check out satelites around Earth and Mars, all the moons(though a lot of them have a default image), and zoom around past the speed of light to other stars.

A truly awesome program.

Acman3192 · 03-13-2006, 10:46 AM

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Originally Posted by grav8e

perhaps someday we'll have Google Moon and Google Mars...

Here is Google Mars: http://www.google.com/mars/

GEH4EVR · 03-13-2006, 01:22 PM

Cool! I love it, You can even see Olympus Mons.

Rudy246 · 03-13-2006, 08:36 PM

Celestia is a very cool program, I've had it for a while and its amazing the stuff you can find on it.

It's not as in-depth or as cool-looking or as smooth as Google Earth, but it is pretty sweet software for the astronomical mind. ^_^

-Rudy

blob · 03-13-2006, 10:30 PM

Hum,
i must have been using google mars for the last couple of years....

http://themis.asu.edu/mars-bin/webmap.pl

Acman3192 · 03-16-2006, 12:58 AM

I like the full zoom view on Google Moon. Those people at Google...ha!

07-18-2005, 09:57 PM	#1
sdoig Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 1	Google non-Earth Others may have noticed this, but I just discovered that if you pull way back up into space and look carefully, you'll see that the nice folks at Google Earth have supplied an astronomically real background of stars. Now if we could only zoom into some of those! Steve Doig

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Acman3192 Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: New York State, USA Posts: 72	Google Moon I like the full zoom view on Google Moon. Those people at Google...ha! Last edited by Acman3192; 03-16-2006 at 01:03 AM.

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07-18-2005, 10:08 PM	#2
grav8e Super-ish Moderator Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Atlanta, GA, USA Posts: 107	perhaps someday we'll have Google Moon and Google Mars...

07-19-2005, 04:37 AM	#3
sethpen Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 28	Maybe they will aquire this software =] http://www.shatters.net/celestia/

07-19-2005, 05:19 AM	#5
araT Licensed to Ban Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Sydney, Oz Posts: 1,244	Awesome find! *Tara goes back to fiddling with it! T.

08-13-2005, 06:09 PM	#9
Watcher Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 15	Try Celestia. It's a free program that maps out the galaxy. All of the planets are in really impressive detail and you can even check out satelites around Earth and Mars, all the moons(though a lot of them have a default image), and zoom around past the speed of light to other stars. A truly awesome program.

03-13-2006, 01:22 PM	#11
GEH4EVR Techy Moderator Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: London,Dublin,Spain... Posts: 1,171	Cool! I love it, You can even see Olympus Mons.

03-13-2006, 08:36 PM	#12
Rudy246 Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: NC Posts: 2	Celestia is a very cool program, I've had it for a while and its amazing the stuff you can find on it. It's not as in-depth or as cool-looking or as smooth as Google Earth, but it is pretty sweet software for the astronomical mind. ^_^ -Rudy

03-13-2006, 10:30 PM	#13
blob Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 97	Hum, i must have been using google mars for the last couple of years.... http://themis.asu.edu/mars-bin/webmap.pl