Google Mars 3d (With HiRISE!), Part of Google Earth 5 |
Google Mars 3d (With HiRISE!), Part of Google Earth 5 |
Feb 2 2009, 08:51 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 104 Joined: 1-June 08 Member No.: 4172 |
Download: Google Earth 5 w/Mars
An early overview is available here. This is exactly what I've been waiting for ever since Google Earth came out five years ago. And HiRISE integration is amazing. |
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Feb 26 2009, 02:06 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Nor is Paolo - he's talking about the ruler tool. And - as far as measuring where there is HiRISE imagery to corroborate the measurements - they're accurate - so, one can infer - it's accurate over the whole planet.
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Feb 26 2009, 07:30 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 28 Joined: 17-April 08 From: Okemos, MI, USA Member No.: 4097 |
Re: the ruler tool
If you take the pole-to-pole distance using the ruler, you find Earth's hemicircumference to be about 19.5 Mm and Mars's to be about 10.5 Mm. So it looks like they do take it into account. (If you try this yourself, note that the distance will not update when you switch from Earth to Mars, so you have to nudge the endpoints a bit to get it to recalculate.) |
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