In honor of the first manned Moon landing, which took place on July 20, 1969, we’ve added some NASA imagery to the Google Maps interface to help you pay your own visit to our celestial neighbor. Happy lunar surfing.
Be sure to zoom in all the way.
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Gareth Russell 07.20.05 at 9:24 am
If you zoom in all the way, you’ll find out what the moon really is made of!
des von bladet 07.20.05 at 9:49 am
We like the moon!
But why the 36th anniversary? Is there some sinister base-6-round-number thing going on chez Google?
Backword Dave 07.20.05 at 9:56 am
It thinks it’s just because they can, and they couldn’t (or hadn’t tried before).
Zoli 07.20.05 at 10:21 am
I did not find out what it is made of … I thought it was Emmenthaler, but some other blog claims it is Gruyere:-) Can’t wait for the first tasting tour! :-))
Eszter 07.20.05 at 10:36 am
Zoli, whoever is claiming Gruyere has never seen real Swiss Gruyere, it doesn’t look like that at all.;)
I hadn’t seen that We like the moon! clip before, funny.
john b 07.20.05 at 1:09 pm
Whilst we’re talking about Google being clever, may I lower the tone?
saurabh 07.20.05 at 1:52 pm
The really awesome thing is, you’ll note that the edges of this image are the dark side of the moon. Holy cannoli!
One optical illusion I can’t overcome is seeing those craters as enormous monoliths protruding up from the lunar surface, rather than as depressions.
Michael Otsuka 07.20.05 at 3:32 pm
I like it how the cheese image is copyright by NASA.
But this will probably be banned from schools on the grounds that it presents a highly controversial theory (full of holes, really) about the constitution of the moon as fact.
Peter 07.20.05 at 4:46 pm
The first moon landing took place on July 21st, 1969, not July 20th, in Australia!
Tom Parmenter 07.20.05 at 5:00 pm
Ha-ha, but the cheese is the wrong color. The “green” cheese that the moon is made out of is green in nature, not in color. That is, green cheese is fresh cheese, which is usually white.
Horatio 07.20.05 at 5:28 pm
If you zoom out to all the way, then zoom in all the way up at the top left corner…
you can see the doors to Universal Studios.
Watch this blog explode!
Jeremy Osner 07.21.05 at 7:50 am
Speaking of Lunar Google, they’re hiring — check the listing.
Wallace 07.21.05 at 1:15 pm
It’s like no cheese I’ve ever had.
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