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Google Maps the Moon

Posted by dw2003 on 21 July 2005 - 14:55 · 21 comments & 5814 views

To celebrate the July 20, 1969 moon landing, Google has launched Google Moon as an extension of Google Maps and Google Earth. Imagery was provided courtesy of NASA and enables you to surf the Moon's surface and check out the exact spots where the Apollo astronauts made their landings.

View: Google Moon FAQs

News source: Google Moon

Reading Pane
Cruise through your e-mail with ease, as you go from mail to mail without loading a new page. The Reading Pane lets you preview the text and thumbnails of attached images in your Inbox. Just click the message to display the full content of the e-mail.

Safety made easy with the Info Barback to top
The Info Bar tells you when the Mail Beta doesn’t recognize a sender, allowing you to block the sender with a single click, and bounce back an e-mail to help prevent a junk mailer from knowing you exist.

The Mail Beta also protects you from criminals trying to obtain ("phish") your personal information by hiding an e-mail’s content when it suspects the sender may be fraudulent.

Address AutoComplete
When you start typing the name of a contact in the address field, Address AutoComplete offers suggestions of matching names from your contact list.

Simply select the correct address—no need to memorize addresses or look through your address book.

Keyboard shortcuts
Mail Beta allows you navigate the way you prefer—via your keyboard, mouse, or a combination of the two.

These keyboard shortcuts let you easily and quickly navigate through messages and folders. Mail Beta also enables multiple select via a combination of your keyboard’s arrows or mouse and the shift key.

Many more keyboard shortcuts to come!

Rich text editing
Say what you want to say, the way you want to say it!

Rich Text Editing lets you add color, shading, and emoticons, control font size, and define formatting. Best of all, Mail Beta preserves all HTML formatting in the e-mails you receive so you can forward emails and know others will see them the way you do.

Storage that grows with you
We’re starting you with 2GB (2 gigabytes) of storage so you can save more e-mail, more photos, more attachments, more of everything. Over time we plan to develop a system that will grow as you need more space.

(2 gigabytes=2,000,000,000 bytes)

Save sent e-mail
No need to cc: yourself on every outgoing e-mail. All the e-mail you send will now be saved in a "sent e-mail" folder—automatically.

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#1 Posted by Quick Reply on 21 Jul 2005 - 15:01: That is damn cool! I love how when you zoom in too close for the photo resolution to show clearly, the surface turns into cheese

#2 Posted by whcodered on 21 Jul 2005 - 15:02: 3. What happens if I try to zoom too close?

Well, you'll have to go and find out, won't you?

(2 replies) #3 Posted by rbet on 21 Jul 2005 - 15:05: Wow, a 'side-splittingly hilarious' prank is front page news!

#4 Posted by hotrod on 21 Jul 2005 - 15:21: ROFLCOPTER!

(2 replies) #5 Posted by Billprozac on 21 Jul 2005 - 15:52: I would actually like to see them map the whole moon.

BTW, I laughed so hard my co-workers all got pissed.

#6 Posted by ramik on 21 Jul 2005 - 16:00: like this people who bought pieces of land on the moon can see their lands

#7 Posted by Ficman on 21 Jul 2005 - 16:12: I am thinking this will be handy...

#8 Posted by Cyranthus on 21 Jul 2005 - 16:20: omg! it really is made of cheese!!!

#9 Posted by Novaoblivion on 21 Jul 2005 - 16:47: LOL! Cheese! Still I think its pretty cool that they mapped the moon.

(1 reply) #10 Posted by Ppk01 on 21 Jul 2005 - 17:05: In the FAQ, they mention it is an extension for Google Maps AND Google Earth. I can't see the moon in Google Earth. Is this some sort of spelling mistake, or is it actually an extension for Google Earth as well?

#11 Posted by - diego - on 21 Jul 2005 - 22:39: joke

#12 Posted by teejaydm on 22 Jul 2005 - 03:48: next up is Google Mars

#13 Posted by huangshibei on 22 Jul 2005 - 09:23: It is actually really good to see the moon so close

(1 reply) #14 Posted by Andre on 22 Jul 2005 - 15:57: Year 2163: Google announces Google Uranus.

#15 Posted by Quaksyx on 23 Jul 2005 - 00:49: If you zoom all the way out, you can see that it is only repeating the same texture about 3.5 times...

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