3D Tour of Mars
VRoot has the news that the Royal Academy was offering 3D tours of a virtual Mars at its annual Summer Science Exhibition, which has just ended. Cool. The article VRoot links doesn’t say what the technology behind the tours was, but if you drill down into the Royal Society site, you find its Rough Guide to Mars page and Life on Mars project, including a link to Google Mars, which is, of course, very cool. And on the about page of that app, the interesting question, “Can I see the Mars data using the Google Earth client?” And the even more interesting answer, “Not yet, but we’re working on it.”
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It was previously possible to see Mars in Google Earth, before Google bought it and it was called Keyhole. They currently only have one server or so for Mars, but it’s still currently viewable in Google Earth for anyone who was a pro subscriber to Keyhole. It will be viewable to everyone when they get around to getting some more servers so it can handle the traffic.
Of course if you’re impatient and can’t wait, you can use NASA’s World Wind software to see Mars right now. It’s basically the same that will be available in Google Earth.
http://www.worldwindcentral.com/wiki/Mars