Those sneaky folks at Google. Even as waves of coverage come pouring forth about the newly launched oceans layer in Google Earth, a short NASA press release and no more than a few lines in a couple news articles note that, oh, yeah, and by the way, there's a new 3-D Mars layer too.
Wha?!?!?
Sure enough, it's in the new Google Earth version 5.0, and It's beautimous. Just launch Earth, click the top tab with the Saturn-looking icon on it, and toggle between Earth, Sky, and Mars.
—Google Earth, Mars layer screenshot
[Google Sky, btw, was launched in 2007 and features a ridonkulous amount of astronomy data, from pretty pictures to current and historical sky charts. Fun.]
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