Tired of not knowing where your nearest Moon hotel is? Unsure how to get to the Sea of Tranquillity? Well thankfully Google has expanded its range of services by updating Google Moon, ensuring its grip now extends to at least three planets including Google Earth and Google Mars, as well as Google Sky. Available on the site are higher-resolution images of the lunar surface that can be viewed panoramically as if you were literally over the moon, text searches and photos and stories from every Apollo landing.
And it’s as a resource of these landings that should make Google Moon every schoolchild’s dream. You can read journal entries, view space exactly as astronauts saw it for the first time and even watch videos – although the ones I saw appeared to be recorded too fast, as if the footage had been filmed in a studio. Hmmm.
