Google Mars 3d (With HiRISE!), Part of Google Earth 5 |
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Google Mars 3d (With HiRISE!), Part of Google Earth 5 |
 Feb 2 2009, 08:51 PM
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Member  Group: Members Posts: 101 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 2 2009, 09:17 PM
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 Administrator Group: Chairman Posts: 13250 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Holy cow - that's amazing...it's what we've ALL been waiting for I think.
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Feb 2 2009, 09:42 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4166 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
OMG!!!
Type "Victoria Crater" on the search box and enjoy! |
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Feb 2 2009, 10:01 PM
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WOW!!! Zoomable CTX images! Finally.
 You're right Doug, if this is not what you've been waiting for, you're either mad or crazy, or both. |
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Feb 2 2009, 10:26 PM
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 Director of Galilean Photography Group: Members Posts: 709 Joined: 15-July 04 From: Austin, TX Member No.: 93 |
Select one of the photos from a lander, and then hit "Fly into this Hi Resolution Photo"
-------------------- Space Enthusiast Richard Hendricks
-- "The engineers, as usual, made a tremendous fuss. Again as usual, they did the job in half the time they had dismissed as being absolutely impossible." --Rescue Party, Arthur C Clarke Mother Nature is the final inspector of all quality. |
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Feb 3 2009, 03:48 AM
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 Member Group: Members Posts: 232 Joined: 5-June 08 From: Udon Thani Member No.: 4185 |
QUOTE (jekbradbury @ Feb 3 2009, 03:51 AM)  This is exactly what I've been waiting for ever since Google Earth came out five years ago. And HiRISE integration is amazing. This is GREAT! Indeed, this is what I've been waiting for, this opens whole new options and possibility's... mind-boggling. Keeping track of the rover, posting images, exchanging positions, etc, etc, it can all be integrated in this. Plus I wouldn't be surprised if we can develop more enhancements (for instance options to integrate with other sensors, etc, etc) ourselves as add-on's... Now make the same for the moon as soon as LRO is in orbit, and then continue with all the other planets and moons, looking at the basic setup it seems that that's indeed the idea... |
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Feb 3 2009, 05:40 AM
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 Dublin Correspondent Group: Admin Posts: 1771 Joined: 28-March 05 From: Celbridge, Ireland Member No.: 220 |
I just love the way they have a little MER model at the end of the rover tracks.
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Feb 3 2009, 06:24 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2164 Joined: 1-December 04 From: Marble Falls, Texas, USA Member No.: 116 |
Many, many thanks for discovering and posting this, jekbradbury.
I must imagine this will become a very useful tool for us. It's nice to zoom out to a regional level and check out the green backpacker icons that link to excerpts from "A Traveler's Guide to Mars." I'm a bit disappointed to find that only some of the HiRise imagery seems to included, but nevertheless, the new software delivers a rich Martian experience to me. I'd have to give it a "thumbs up" as I look forward to where it goes from here. -------------------- ...Tom (thinks he should use more emoticons)
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Feb 3 2009, 11:31 AM
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 Member Group: Members Posts: 220 Joined: 22-December 07 From: Alice Springs, N.T. Australia Member No.: 3989 |
Thanks - Great. Luckily I had a bit of spare time tonight - because I used it all up!!!
Maps look like they are up to date for the rover positions. |
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Feb 3 2009, 12:03 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4166 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
Opportunity map covers the route up to Santorini.
I know that google earth has the option to add "home-made" layers to it ("KML" files); actually I used that feature to map some mountain-bike routes which I logged with a GPS. <Mmm, just wondering how to translate the rover's route data I have to google earth format...> |
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Feb 3 2009, 02:26 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 301 Joined: 21-September 07 From: Québec, Canada Member No.: 3908 |
Just took a few minutes to test this thing. Amazing! Can't wait to have some free time on my hands. Have you tried the flight simulator on Mars?
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Feb 3 2009, 09:48 PM
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 Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 53 Joined: 3-June 04 From: Bretagne, France Member No.: 79 |
I achieved one of my dream : flying in Noctis Labyrinthus, losing myself inside the meanders of the canyon
-------------------- Thomas Appéré Personal webpage Orbit-Mars
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Feb 4 2009, 02:04 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1259 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124 |
It seems my Placemarks have survived the interplanetary journey.... or else there is a Wild Animal Park near the Cynae Fossae region! And my house appears to be in a crater chain or collapsed lava tube - how cool is that!
Very neat - though it is acting like a Beta on my MacBook for sure - or is the Mars Curse affecting me now as well? -------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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Feb 4 2009, 02:33 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 4519 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Well, it's been great mixing with all you nice people on UMSF, but I'm afraid I'm going to stop posting now - and teaching, writing books, eating, you name it. I'm just going to play with Google Mars until the emergency services break the door down and find a dried-up husk in front of the computer.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Feb 4 2009, 11:02 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1114 Joined: 12-February 06 From: Marseille - FR Member No.: 678 |
Hi,
A lot of time without posting here, because of some various problems :/ I discover this post, downloaded this new version of Google Earth, and it's totally amazing  I've been waiting for this during a long time, as many of you. Views from Valles Marineris ridges are astounding, I never feel a sensation of gigantism of Valles Marineris like this!And hurray, I can load my Phoenix KML EDL into Google Mars, it's better than North of Canada  .
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