Google Maps API - See the Sky, Moon and Mars

Google Maps API - have released Sky, Moon and Mars tiles in Version 2.95 of the API.


Mars Elevation Tiles

This means you can now call up the tiles that Google Maps Moon/Mars and Google Earth Sky mode use.


Mars there is an Infrared option too.


It's dark out there!


no cheese but good detail.

The original page
http://econym.googlepages.com/example_moon.htm

one bug found by Mike Williams [Google Maps API Guru]
http://econym.googlepages.com/bug_moon.htm
polylines disappears on switching modes
[this bug is already reported]

Mapperz version soon followed - as the curiosity got to them.

http://mapperz.googlepages.com/Google_SKY_MOON_MARS_Official_API.html

More info:
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API/browse_thread/thread/9da5d9f4d8dae310#

Official Blog Post
http://googlemapsapi.blogspot.com/2007/12/maps-from-another-world.html
Official Examples
http://gmaps-samples.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/planetary/planetary_maptypes.html