Google goes to Mars
p2p news / p2pnet: Google has opened a Mars watchers’ site with close-ups of the Red Planet made from images taken by NASA’s orbiting Mars Odyssey and Mars Global Surveyor space vehicles.
It’s divided into nine viewing categories: Regions, Mountains, Plains, Spacecraft, Canyons, Ridges, Stories, Dunes and Craters.
The first two entries in Spacecraft are, for example, " Mars 2 Lander (USSR) – Failed during descent. First man-made object on Mars," and, "Mars 3 Lander (USSR). First successful landing on Mars, sent signal for 20 seconds after landing."
The elevation map shows color-coded peaks and valleys, a visible-imagery map with what your eyes would actually see, and an infrared-imagery map showing detail your eyes would miss, says the Google blog.
NASA researchers Noel Gorelick and Michael Weiss-Malik from Arizona State University worked on the project, which commemorates the birthday of Percival Lowell who sketched its surface, it says.
March 14th, 2006 at 1:43 pm
*Sits patiently and waits for posts of whackos who think they have found extraterrestial imprints on the Mars surface*
March 14th, 2006 at 3:31 pm
There is no intelligent life in this solar system.
March 15th, 2006 at 12:00 am
I’m waiting for someone to find that rock that’s supposed to look like a human face.