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

Google Moon Update (Map & Charts)

Google Moon Update (minus the cheese)

• Higher Resolution Images
• Moon 'Walk' View
• No Cheese (was on max zoom - Wallace & Gromit ate it all?)

Data/Map Types:

Visible - A mosaic of images taken by the Clementine mission. This is a black-and-white version of what you would see if you were in orbit around the moon. This composite imagery was prepared by the USGS.
Elevation - A lunar terrain map generated by the USGS in conjunction with the The Unified Lunar Control Network 2005, and shaded using an airbrushed shaded relief map. This map is colour-coded by altitude, so you can use the colour key at the lower left to estimate elevations.
Apollo - A collection of place marks that tell the story of the Apollo missions that landed on the moon. This includes stories, quotes, images, panoramas, audio clips, and links to videos of the astronauts' adventures on the lunar surface.
Charts - A collection of geological and topographic charts of various regions of the moon.

Official Post
http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2007/09/new-moon.html