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Google expanded its online mapping service to a third celestial body last week with ASU's help. Programmers from ASU's Mars Space Flight Facility worked with the search engine to load composite images ...
NASA's Mars helicopter, also known as "Ingenuity," has been on the surface of Mars since it arrived as part of the Mars 2020 Mission, including the Perseverance Rover. The diminutive aircraft made ...
Last month, Google quietly killed off Google Sky Maps. But there’s still another way to virtually explore most of the solar system a la Google Maps: it’s called Google Maps in Space. Google Maps in ...
TEMPE, Ariz. ­ A new planet-spanning Web site, Google Mars (mars.google.com) launches today on what would have been Mars astronomer Percival Lowell’s 151st birthday. At the heart of the new Web site ...
In a herculean effort, Caltech's Bruce Murray Laboratory for Planetary Visualization has created what has now been deemed the most detailed 3D map of Mars ever made. The Global CTX Mosaic of Mars map ...
One day, we could be Martians. Not the luminous green blobs with three eyes and wobbly antennae, but humans, born and raised on the Red Planet. NASA researchers are currently spending a year in a ...
The USGS Astrogeology Science Center in Flagstaff, Arizona recently released a series of geologic Martian maps that could all be impactful to future missions to the Red Planet. Does size matter? In ...