Google Mars and 3D earth

23rd March 2006

posted in edtech, science |

Whoa, this just keeps getting more amazing and powerful. Google Earth is now available in 3D for many locales, you can do fly-throughs of areas like New York City.

And you can also access web-based Google Mars to tour the red planet. The geniuses at Google are working on a version that will work with the Google Earth client and provide customized 3D flythroughs also like this one through Valles Marineris. Except you won’t be watching a movie in the Google version, you’ll be “driving.”

These images are rendered on the fly over the web, for both Google Earth and Google Mars. Just a few years, you would have had to access very expensive and very large computer systems to do this. Now you can use your laptop or desktop computer.

Wow.

On this day..

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1 On March 26th, 2006, Open Resource Centre : Google Mars and 3D earth said:

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2 On March 27th, 2006, Educational Technology and Life » Blog Archive » What happens when you don’t post right away? said:

[…] … and finally, Wesley Freyer posted about it. Google Mars and 3D earth (Via Moving at the Speed of Creativity.) But I guess I’m showing up later than Wesley even… but we did integrate this into our presentations at the OCDE straight away - in time for a presentation at CUE on March 11th even. […]