Google Mars is now available at
http://www.google.com/mars/
Google Mars!
-
Topic authorselden - Developer
- Posts: 10192
- Joined: 04.09.2002
- With us: 22 years 3 months
- Location: NY, USA
Google Mars!
Selden
Now if I could only create a texture like that for the model I created.
-
buggs_moran
- Posts: 835
- Joined: 27.09.2004
- With us: 20 years 2 months
- Location: Massachusetts, USA
While you are looking at that, download this...
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mars/missions/odyssey/20060313.html
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mars/missions/odyssey/20060313.html
Homebrew:
WinXP Pro SP2
Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe
AMD Athlon XP 3000/333 2.16 GHz
1 GB Crucial RAM
80 GB WD SATA drive
ATI AIW 9600XT 128M
WinXP Pro SP2
Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe
AMD Athlon XP 3000/333 2.16 GHz
1 GB Crucial RAM
80 GB WD SATA drive
ATI AIW 9600XT 128M
Now what would be REALLY cool is something that is exactly like Google Earth, but for Mars. ie a globe you could go anywhere on, with virtual textures that get more detailed as you get closer.
Of course, we can do that with Celestia already, but still...
Of course, we can do that with Celestia already, but still...
My Celestia page: Spica system, planetary magnitudes script, updated demo.cel, Quad system
-
Chuft-Captain
- Posts: 1779
- Joined: 18.12.2005
- With us: 19 years
Re: Google Mars!
selden wrote:Google Mars is now available at
http://www.google.com/mars/
Check out this 3-D fly-through movie of Valles Marineris (Link from Google Mars): http://themis.asu.edu/valles_video
"Is a planetary surface the right place for an expanding technological civilization?"
-- Gerard K. O'Neill (1969)
CATALOG SYNTAX HIGHLIGHTING TOOLS LAGRANGE POINTS
-- Gerard K. O'Neill (1969)
CATALOG SYNTAX HIGHLIGHTING TOOLS LAGRANGE POINTS