Do you like Google Earth? Howzabout Google Mars???

[Tesha]

Perhaps you're watching the PBS Nova show about our
missions to Mars that's airing at this moment.

But have you been to:

http://mars.google.com/?

Using the tools there, you can visit various regions of Mars as
well as identify where our various missions have landed.

Tesha

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. With the new and improved GE you can drag your icon to a

streetcorner just about anywhere and do a 360 degree turnaround... I was looking at people in cars and you could definitely recognize someone in their vehicle.... amaaaaaaazing.

[Tesha]

3. At least our garage door is closed.

The neighbor's isn't ;) .

And the photos were taken prior to us putting our "Obama"
stickers on our cars.

Tesha

[HysteryDiagnosis]

5. Hurry, go out and the yard and wave at yourself... heh, I figured

you took a look... simply amazing no?

[Tesha]

6. Amazing, yes. I wonder how many images get "reported" as inappropriate? (NT)

[HysteryDiagnosis]

11. If I could zoom in on GW's inauguration I would report it as

inappropriate... you know I would. :)

[AzNick]

12. You can see a street crime in progress somewhere

I kid you not. You can see a young guy point a gun at a child to intimidate him, or maybe steal something from him.

And yes, they are African Americans (not a racist statement, just that this type of scene does not happen only in the movies).

I'll see if I can find it again.

Edited: I found it!

[HysteryDiagnosis]

15. Search term.... WTF?? Unreal... I just took a "cruise" down the

street where I grew up "way back when".... man on a tractor, you could almost make out every detail, almost read the name on the tractor.... too cool.

[pot luck]

19. Are you sure that they aren't just two kids playing?

The gun doesn't look real, and the other kid is wearing a helmet.

[BeatleBoot]

2. Do they have driving directions?

- Continue past the 4 million year old crater until you reach the Big Red Rock (200 km)
- Turn left at the Big Red Rock and continue past the light Red Boulder (1,000 km)
- At the Red Boulder, merge into sand storm traffic, and continue (1,000 km)
- Once at the massive crater, stop (250 km)

- Total Distance (2,450 km)

[Kalyke]

21. Duzy!!!

:rofl:

[Soylent Brice]

26. does it tell you to swim across dead space to get to france?

on edit:

never mind. it doesn't do it anymore.

you used to be able to ask for directions from new york to paris and at one point it would tell you to swim X amount of miles across the atlantic. it's not doing it now. LAME.

[Swamp Rat]

4. This is just the beginning.. pretty soon there will be layers of shape files containing street grids

or 'canal' grids based on LIDAR, and database layers containing other features and attributes, such as: parcel data, political boundaries, local weather data, webcams and clickable points containing qualitative data, photos, etc.

I might even open my own coffee shop, "Café Du Mons," and link my website to a hyperlink in Google Mars. :hangover:

[OffWithTheirHeads]

8. "Cafe Du Mons"? I'm not even going to ask.

[Beausoleil]

25. I've read enough sci-fi to know

what Olympus Mons is.

And I got a can of Cafe Du Monde for Christmas. Swampy knows what that is!

[neverforget]

16. I take it you are involved in GIS?

[Swamp Rat]

17. Yes

and remote sensing, photogrammetry, and other methods used in climatology, urban ecology and sustainability, watershed and water resource management, etc.

And you?

[neverforget]

20. I have been doing GIS for almost 9 years now. How much longer that

lasts, I don't know as our work has dried up. For the most part, I've been doing data conversion although I have done some GPS work which I loved. My company has been involved with making the National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) for the USGS for the past 7 years. http://nhd.usgs.gov/

[Swamp Rat]

22. Hopefully we'll be flooded with more work after Obama gets in.

We'll likely see WPA-type building projects, many of which will require GIS-related analysis.

I'm doing research in New Orleans out of necessity, and with no funding. ;)

:toast:

[OffWithTheirHeads]

7. Holy shit, this is fucking creepy!

I just looked up my condo and can see my truck parked in front with the rear window rolled down. Who took these pictures? Is big brother all seeing, all knowing, all powerful? This just creeps the fuck outa me.

[Tesha]

13. Google runs a van around snapping the photos.

http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/the-google-street-view-vehicle-revealed/

http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~tebo/GoogleStreetViewVan/

[notesdev]

14. Same here

I can see my car on Google by looking up my address.

This is like God's gift to repo men.

[Lint Head]

9. I can hardly wait for the 'Street View'.

:dem:

[Tesha]

28. If they do do "Mars canal view", I'll bet the camera vehicle looks like this:

[AzNick]

10. Try Google moon

http://www.google.com/moon/

Zoom in all the way.

You can even see the site of the Moon Hoax Landing!!!

[Peace Patriot]

18. Thanks! That is totally cool! nt

[Lex]

23. I'm always getting lost on Mars, so this will come in handy!

nt

[Uncle Joe]

24. They stated on the NOVA program last night, the Phoenix

had detected a chemical in the Polar region of Mars that was found in rocket fuel making it more difficult for life to survive.

I was wondering if the Phoenix boosters may have contaminated the soil with unburned rocket fuel traces when it landed and this was in fact what the Phoenix detected?

[Tesha]

27. The chemical was perchlorate.

I'm pretty sure when that news first came out that I heard that
they had discounted contamination as the source.

Tesha

[Warren DeMontague]

29. Cool!

:kick: