Interested in exploring a little farther from home? Google Earth has three other features: Google Moon, Google Mars, and Google Sky! To adjust displays, click on the Google_Earth_button.jpg button on the center toolbar. Here are a few features of each mode:

Google Moon:
  • prominent, named regions
  • landing sites for American and foreign missions
  • details of Apollo landings
  • integrated video tours of important lunar features
  • video of probe missions, most notably LCROSS

Google Mars:

  • prominent, named regions
  • topographic maps and other historical charts
  • live data from current probes and orbiters
  • satellite images
  • integrated content with the acclaimed book, A Traveler's Guide to Mars
  • integrated video tours of the planet and its formations

Google Sky:
  • mapped constellations with names and boundaries
  • Messier objects
  • 360 degree view of northern and southern skies
  • integrated podcasts from Earth & Sky and other current media
  • Hubble Space Telescope images including Deep Field and Ultra Deep Field