Escape This Wretched Earth With Google’s Sweet New Solar System Maps

If you , like me , are well-worn of this humankind — these the great unwashed — old-hat of being caughtin the tangle of their lives , Google now allows you search 16 other world-wide bodies that are more tranquil than this one .

Yesterday , Googleannouncedthat it has total 13 new reality to its digital recreation of our solar system . The internet site antecedently only provided practical spell of our Moon , Mars , and theInternational Space Station . But now Google has added Mercury , Venus , Pluto , and ten moonshine , many of which were catch by ballistic capsule Cassini during its 20 - twelvemonth mission thatended as it plunge into Saturnon September 15 .

In edict to create this watercraft for digital astronomic tourism , Google used images collected by NASA and the European Space Agency , and enlist planetary mapper and creative person Björn Jónsson to help meld those images into maps .

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Google allows you to grab the planets and spin them around , so you’re able to regard them fully lighted , or see their dark side with the sun in the background . Some maps leave substance abuser to zoom in on geologic landmarks .

Check out all those line . Europa looks like it has view some hoot .

Ceres ’ Piuku volcanic crater looks like a enceinte place to not find out Twitter or to just die in space .

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I care to imagine diving into Titan ’s methane lakes . The spot Elpis Macula was named after the Greek goddess of happiness and hope . It seems like a good post to go when you have minuscule of either .

All you want to do to try the unexampled feature is to click theSpace pageor to go to the regular Google Maps satellite view and zoom out until you transgress through the standard pressure . Then Google gives you the alternative to zip over toTitan , Ceres , Ganymede , Europa , or whatever raw and peaceable celestial body you ’d rather be on properly now .

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