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Google Moon offers us a close-up of the lunar landscape
Fasten your spacebelts, astronerds, as there's a new destination for Google Earth — and it's everyone's favorite planet, the moon. There are guided tours from Buzz Aldrin and Jack Schmitt, as well as videos and images of all the missions to Selene.
As someone who wasn't even born when Neil Armstrong made mankind's giant leap, I've been glued to it all morning (which is why the post is late up — sorry, boss) discovering just where Chandrayaan-1 put down. And you've got to love the fact that Google's resident astronaut, Ed Liu, sounds just like a slightly less jaded Clint Eastwood. Well, wouldn't you, if you'd spent your career kissing the stars rather than killing blue-eyed soul singers?
Official Google Blog, via Daily Mail]
By duh at 7:42 AM ON 07/21/09
the moon is not a planet - it's the satellite of a planet.
By dissapointed at 8:48 AM ON 07/21/09
This is one of the worst articles I have ever read. First off, "duh" is correct, obviously the moon is not a planet. Second, why is Clint Eastwood *killing* blue-eyed soul singers? Please proofread your work before posting.
By driedcod at 9:31 AM ON 07/21/09
Suh-weeeet! Just spent an hour killing time myself using this. Love that moon stuff :)
By Giggity at 10:53 AM ON 07/21/09
Yeah...Google has done an amazing job with this tool and the images.
I also was up till the wee hours of the morning checking out the moon.
Some incredible stuff.
By murc at 8:04 PM ON 07/21/09
cool.
Its reasons like this that I like google and use their search engine.
By Addy Dugdale at 8:22 AM ON 08/03/09
Dissapointed: I think you spelt your name wrong, so I see your proofreading comment and I raise you A BIGGER PROOFREADING COMMENT.
Sorry for the calling the Moon a planet. My bad.
As for my Clint comment, watch Magnum Force. David Soul is in it. Clint kills him.
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