Google Maps expands its services and now allows three-dimensional virtual travel across the surface of Mars and the Moon.
The mapping service Google Maps continues to expand, and if it was possible to explore remote places like the Colorado River, the Amazon or the temples of Angkor, from today users can now virtually explore the surface of the Moon and Mars, says CNNExpansión.
The Internet giant has added these new maps to mark the second anniversary of the arrival of the Curiosity rover to Mars. To access this virtual tour you must activate the satellite view on Google Maps, get away as much as possible using the zoom tool until you see the globe and accessed from the "Scan" button on any of the two celestial bodies neighbors Earth.
Users can visit the most emblematic places of the Moon, as Cabeus craters or Tycho and the popular Sea of Tranquility. Those traveling on Mars will look closely at the Monte Taris, Naktong Valley or Mount Olympus, the largest volcano in the Solar System. Clicking on these these geographies detailed information about them provided by NASA, including longitude, latitude or origin of the name is displayed.
Google says that Google Maps, "students, teachers and anyone in the world with an Internet connection can take a trip out of this Earth
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