Washington, Feb 3 (ANI): NASA and Google have announced the release of a new Mars mode in Google Earth that brings to everyone's desktop a high-resolution, three-dimensional (3D) view of the Red Planet.
The mode enables users to fly virtually through enormous canyons and scale huge mountains on Mars that are much larger than any found on Earth.
Users also can explore the Red Planet through the eyes of the Mars rovers and other Mars missions, providing a unique perspective of the entire planet.
Users can see some of the latest satellite imagery from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and other probes orbiting the Red Planet.
Viewers can learn about new discoveries and explore indexes of available Mars imagery.
The new Mars mode also allows users to add their own 3D content to the Mars map to share with the world.
This announcement is the latest benefit from a Space Act Agreement NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, signed with Google in November 2006.
Under its terms, NASA and Google agreed to collaborate to make NASA's data sets available to the world.
NASA Ames, along with its partners at Google, Carnegie Mellon University, SETI (Search for extraterrestrial Intelligence), and other institutions, helped produce the data to make this possible. (ANI)
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