Tag: MARS

Google and Nasa officially announced their special Space Act Agreement Monday. Through this new relationship, both companyies and government agency will work on technical problems that face large scale data management and human-computer interfaces. Google and NASA's Ames Research Center's first focus will be to make NASA's information readably available on the internet, namely real time weather ...

Ever wonder what time it is on Mars? If you are an astronomy buff at all, you may have. Mars Clock is a small Java based application available from NASA's Goddard Institute website. This nifty app will display the surface of Mars and rotate in real time, Mars time that is. You can also toggle the display of the rover landing zones on Mars, as well as current locations of each. Did you know that ...

For the interplanetary traveler, Google has launched Google Mars which lets you pan and zoom around the red planet's surface. It gives you three different views: visible, color-coded elevation, and infrared. Unfortunately there's no cheesy easter eggs a la Google Moon, but there are a bunch of markers for locating landmarks (including the legendary "face" and the less well-known Happy ...