{"id":754,"date":"2006-08-17T01:43:46","date_gmt":"2006-08-17T01:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=754"},"modified":"2006-08-17T01:43:46","modified_gmt":"2006-08-17T01:43:46","slug":"google_on_mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2006\/08\/17\/google_on_mars\/","title":{"rendered":"google on mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, this came out in March, but I &#8216;ve only just stumbled on it now. Google has a version of its maps program for the planet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/mars\/\">Mars<\/a>, or at least the part of if explored and documented by the 2001 NASA Mars Odyssey mission. It&#8217;s quite spectacular, especially the psychedelic elevation view:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"google mars.jpg\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/google%20mars.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"421\" \/><br \/>\nThere&#8217;s also various info tied to specific coordinates on the map: location of dunes, craters, planes etc., as well as stories from the Odyssey mission, mostly descriptions of the Martian landscape. It would be fun to do an anthology of Mars-located science fiction with the table of contents mapped, or an edition of Bradbury&#8217;s <em>Martian Chronicles<\/em>. Though I suppose there&#8217;d a fair bit of retrofitting of the atlas to tales written out of pure fancy and not much knowledge of Martian geography (Marsography?). If nothing else, there&#8217;s the seeds of a great textbook here. Does the Google Maps API extend to Mars, or is it just an earth thing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, this came out in March, but I &#8216;ve only just stumbled on it now. Google has a version of its maps program for the planet Mars, or at least the part of if explored and documented by the 2001 NASA Mars Odyssey mission. It&#8217;s quite spectacular, especially the psychedelic elevation view: There&#8217;s also various [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[206,755,1129,1139,1664,1676,1842],"tags":[2667],"class_list":["post-754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bradbury","category-google","category-maps","category-mars","category-science_fiction","category-search","category-textbooks","tag-maps-google-mars-textbooks-science_fiction-bradbury-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}