Moon View in Google Earth
Google Earth 5 includes a separate globe of the moon, starting on July 20, 2009 to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing. The maps are of a much higher resolution than those on the browser version of Google Moon and it also includes 3D renderings of the Moon terrain.
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“Ive tried the new moon tilted in the air
Above a hazy tree-and-farmhouse cluster
As you might try a jewel in your hair.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
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—Aristotle (384323 B.C.)
“This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)