Have you used Google Earth ? Well now, apparently, we can Google space, too.
http://earth.google.com/gallery/kml_listing.html#csky#s1#e10
http://earth.google.com/gallery/kml_listing.html#csky#s1#e10
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It's called "Google Sky", but this is otherwise correct.
You can use Google Earth to show maps of other planets; you can easily get Google Earth to map image files onto the globe, image files that can easily be maps of other planets. And you can add points and lines and polygons to mark out places and regions. You can save your cartographic efforts as files, and Google itself has a huge collection of such files contributed by Google Earth's users, including the sky, the Moon, Mars, and other places.
ETA: Google Moon and Google Mars are done in the style of Google Maps.
ETA again: some people have created for Google Earth some maps that show how the continents have drifted over the last 600 million years; searching for "paleomaps" in that GE community site yields this nice thread.
You can use Google Earth to show maps of other planets; you can easily get Google Earth to map image files onto the globe, image files that can easily be maps of other planets. And you can add points and lines and polygons to mark out places and regions. You can save your cartographic efforts as files, and Google itself has a huge collection of such files contributed by Google Earth's users, including the sky, the Moon, Mars, and other places.
ETA: Google Moon and Google Mars are done in the style of Google Maps.
ETA again: some people have created for Google Earth some maps that show how the continents have drifted over the last 600 million years; searching for "paleomaps" in that GE community site yields this nice thread.
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