After Google Earth comes...Google Moon!

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After Google Earth comes...Google Moon!

willohara on Wed, 2005-07-20 00:41.

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Source Title:
Google out in space...

Source Url:
http://moon.google.com

Story Text:

In honor of the first manned Moon landing, which took place on July 20, 1969, Google have added some NASA imagery to the Google Maps interface to help you pay your own visit to our celestial neighbor.

Because we couldn't think of a better way to commemorate the first lunar landing, which occurred on July 20, 1969, than to give our users an opportunity to surf around the lunar surface themselves.

Comments

hehehe

DaveN on Wed, 2005-07-20 01:12.

like the way you zoom right in and it turns to cheese :)

DaveN

Even though.....

willohara on Wed, 2005-07-20 01:19.

...they may be crazy world-dominating megalomaniacs, they've still got a sense of humour!

I hadn't noticed the chease

twadmin on Wed, 2005-07-20 03:00.

I hadn't noticed the chease thing, that's pretty cool :)

It's not green! Paradigm

Brian_Turner on Wed, 2005-07-20 03:38.

It's not green! Paradigm lost!

pretty funny

Pickled on Wed, 2005-07-20 06:16.

great geek humor!

Must be part of G's 10% "way

jimbeetle on Wed, 2005-07-20 07:24.

Must be part of G's 10% "way out there" research.

I love it!

pleeker on Wed, 2005-07-20 09:09.

I love it!

A friend just pointed out

jimbeetle on Wed, 2005-07-20 09:45.

A buddy just pointed out the Google Moon help page:

We usually don’t announce future products in advance, but in this case, yes, we can confirm that on July 20th, 2069, in honor of the 100th anniversary of mankind’s first manned lunar landing, Google will fully integrate Google Local search capabilities into Google Moon, which will allow our users to quickly find lunar business addresses, numbers and hours of operation, among other valuable forms of Moon-oriented local information.

And, G is also hiring for the G.C.H.E.E.S.E. project at the Google Copernicus Center. There's a heck of a lot to this. Be sure to click "Next" so you can find all about Googlunaplex.