Everyone ’s preferent lil ’ rover , Curiosity , has now been rolling around Mars for two years . So it ’s high time Google Maps mystify in on the activity — and now , to celebrate the anniversary , it ’s launched Maps for Mars and the Moon . Getting pin man into blank space is pretty easy , if you follow a few steps .
It ’s childlike , as long as you have intercourse where you ’re going . First , spread out up Google Maps in your web browser app . Then , surge out . Alllllll the way out . Once you ’re as far aside as you could get , you should see a beautiful high - Re interpreting of Earth backlit by the Milky Way . Make certain the option Browning automatic rifle at the bottom of your web browser window is pulled up , and you ’ll see there are two other planetary options : The Moon and Mars .
Right now , each satellite is labeled with major landscape painting features , like craters and mountains . you could press each name to learn more , but it ’d be amazing to have a more detailed direction to search , say , the spot where the Apollo 11 charge first contact down . There ’s in reality anolder , 2D map you’re able to use to see those detail , so maybe we ’ll eventually see it in Google Maps too .
And now that Rosetta has photographed the first comet ever intercepted by human technology , possibly someday we ’ll see a Google Maps entry for Comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko , too . [ Google Maps;Engadget ]
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