Dione – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Tue, 17 Oct 2017 12:27:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg Dione – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 Moons and Planets added to Google Maps https://www.maproomblog.com/2017/10/moons-and-planets-added-to-google-maps/ Tue, 17 Oct 2017 13:00:03 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=5215 More]]>
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The Moon and Mars were relatively early additions to Google Earth; that application may have been migrated to the web, but the planets and moons keep coming. Yesterday Google announced the addition of a dozen other worlds in our solar system; the space layer of Google Maps now includes planets Mercury, Venus and Mars; dwarf planets Ceres and Pluto;1 Jupiter’s moons Io, Europa and Ganymede; and Saturn’s moons Dione, Enceladus, Iapetus, Mimas, Rhea and Titan. Large moons Callisto and Triton aren’t included, and Iapetus is projected onto a sphere rather than appearing as the bizarre space walnut it is.

The Planetary Society’s Emily Lakdawalla noticed a thing, though:

Emily reports that this bug affects several moons of Jupiter and Saturn; Google is apparently already on it and may have fixed it by the time you read this.

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