Google Maps the Surface of the Moon

By Nate Mook | Published July 20, 2005, 12:07 PM

Commemorating the first manned moon landing that took place 36 years ago today, Google has launched a variant of Google Maps thats lets users find out if the moon is realy made of cheese. While browsing the lunar surface, Google Moon also points out the locations of the six Apollo moon landings.

"Google Moon only has as much data as NASA was able to give us, so there are limitations (for now) on how close to the surface we can zoom," Google says. The company also announced that by 2069, it expects to integrate Google Local into Google Moon to help lunar visitors find businesses, phone numbers and other important information.

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2069 is 100 year anniversary...

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Don't start that moon landing garbage, you know America landed on the moon and so does everyone else. Almost as dumb as the people that think WWII never happened.

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How much do we know about the moon, when is the last time we went there? It is kinda hard to fake landing on the moon now days with so many people having the ability to "watch" themselves from home on expensive telescopes.

We know alot about WWII because it did happen.

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too much radiation between the earth and moon, read up their are confidential articles about it that were leaked and people sued ect.. for it. There was no landing, a lunar probe yes, but no human contact.

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but it is made of cheese...

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is thir one thing google cant do Im waiting for the google os,:)

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mybackyard.google.com

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And in other news today, Google announces its new company slogan:

"Today the moon...tomorrow, Redmond!"

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by 2100 we will be on mars =)

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Zoom i all the way. Proof positive that we've never once landed there. If we had, we'd have had a permenant mining/packaging/delivery system in place 20 years ago.

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"Behold...the power of cheese."

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A map scale would be welcome: I have no idea if we're dealing with miles, tenths or hundreds of them, between the different Apollo landings.
I think it's a nice commemoration. 36 years yesterday ...
Moon was such a refined game to play ...
Now it seems as if it's here to stay ...
Oh! I believe in yesterday ...

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Map Scale, that's where google sucks.
If you zoom it all the way, why it turns into yellow?

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Its cheese.... get it?

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Ever see Swiss cheese before?

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2069....??...69??....how can anyone predict what will happen in the next five decades...I could say alien has invaded us by then and it would be credible too... :)

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Lol, once again, that is supposed to be a joke. 2069? Businesses on the moon? Please. If Google really was serious about connecting the earth and moon databases, it could be done much sooner...but no-one has been back to the moon since Apollo, let alone businessmen and lawyers.

Though a moon colony would rock. I would totally want to visit there. I've always wanted to see the earth from space...that and I've wanted to see space from space! Man, could you imagine baseball on the moon? A homer would really keep flying!

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Depends on how much beer you gave him, first. D'oh!

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zoom in all the way once

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