Tag: Google Maps
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Here’s how a satellite ended up as a ghostly apparition on Google Earth
Dig deep on Google Earth and you’ll inevitably find a surprise or two. Maybe you’re looking at far-flung islands in the middle of an ocean or checking in on something closer to home. A few years ago, online sleuths found an image of a B-2 stealth bomber in flight over Missouri. The aircraft is smeared…
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Google Maps expands its interplanetary domain all the way out to Pluto
You can get an annotated view of Pluto from Google Maps. (NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI / Google) If you zoom way, way out on Google Maps, you can now find your way around places like Sputnik Planum, Seville Mons, Aphrodite Terra and Damascus Sulcus. Those are destinations on Pluto, Iapetus, Venus and Enceladus, just…
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Google Maps unveils its latest destination: the International Space Station
Some spacesuits make their tour debut as Google Maps’ Street View takes users around the International Space Station. While space tourism is still a little ways away, Google is getting a head start by offering its own tours of the International Space Station — the latest destination on Google Maps’ Street View. To use it,…