Are your kids unimpressed with the “real” world? Well, here’s something so cool it will make all their friends in Azeroth jealous. Enter Google, the world’s coolest company on the third rock from the Sun, to add the fourth rock to their repertoire of tech goodies. They’ve taken their popular Google Earth technology and created Google Mars 3D, which provides a three-dimensional view of the planet.
The mode, which relies on NASA data and imagery from the agency’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and other spacecraft, is designed so users can “fly” through Martian canyons in a virtual mode and see the red planet’s surface through the camera eyes of those long-lived NASA rovers Spirit and Opportunity, as well as other Mars missions.
With Google applications being famously customizable via their robust APIs, MDIAG! is sure we’ll see some excellent applications coming out of this.