Google Mars Adds Live And Historical Images Of Red Planet

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By cgull8m

Red Planet Mars. Photo: NASA.
Red Planet Mars. Photo: NASA.

Google Mars like the Google Earth and Google Maps has lots of new and old images that span almost the entire Red Planet.

You can find incredible detail about the Red Planet in Google Mars, thanks to pictures from Odyssey’s and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s cameras.

Google Mars has antique maps of Mars from over a century ago to latest images from the Mars spacecraft. You can see the new maps at Google Mars either online at http://www.google.com/mars/ or offline in 3D via Google Earth at http://earth.google.com/mars.

In Google Mars, you can see a faint glimpse of the "Face on Mars". But the resolution is not very high to see the actual face in it yet.

Click the “Spacecraft” tab at the top of Google Mars page to see where the rovers are and where the Viking Landers and the Russian Mars Landers landed etc.

You can also check the “Mountains”, “Canyons”, “Craters”, “Ridges”, “Plains”, “Dunes”, etc.

A Google spokesman told Telegraph:

"We are entering uncharted territory."


Telegraph said you can also go on virtual fly-bys with the Odyssey and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

There are currently three spacecraft orbiting Mars, Mars Odyssey, Mars Express and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. We can expect more images and information from them in Google Mars.


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BeatsMe profile image

BeatsMe  says:
9 months ago

The first picture, that's Mars? It looks colorful. So, we can tour Mars too, online? :O

cgull8m profile image

cgull8m  says:
9 months ago

Yes, it is great for students and researchers. They can find lots of things now online. We will get even more detail soon.

compu-smart profile image

compu-smart  says:
9 months ago

Whoever can find life and other planets in our galaxy, (other than NASA), its Google!

cgull8m profile image

cgull8m  says:
9 months ago

Google the popular search engine in Galaxy :)

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