Google展示火星的地图

Google展示火星的地图

AMTeam.org消息：为了纪念19世纪天文学家Percival Lowell的诞辰，Google与NASA的研究员合作推出新服务提供火星的不同视图。

此项名为Google Mars的服务提供了火星的三种不同视图：以颜色标明山峰和山谷的高度正面图；当你站在火星上面所能看到的俯视图；用于展示人眼所不能看到细节的红外成像图。

该服务结合了Google路线图服务Google Maps的技术和展示火星细节的科技图，而NASA的研究员Noel Gorelick、Michael Weiss-Malik加入了这个项目。

新服务将在Lowell的生日推出，后者是波士顿著名的Lowell家族的成员，19世纪后期他就以研究火星作为自己的全职工作。然而Lowell对天文学的最大贡献是其对海王星之外的“行星X”的搜索，这项工作使得1930年冥王星的发现。

Google周一在其主页上添加了火星图片和望远镜的图标，该图标指向Google Mars的链接。

Google Shows Maps Of Mars

In honor of the birthday of 19th Century astronomer Percival Lowell, Google Inc. on Monday offered views of the planet Mars through a service developed in conjunction with NASA researchers.

Called Google Mars, the service offers three different views of the Red Planet, an elevation map that shows color-coded peaks and valleys, a visible-imagery map that shows what a person would actually see from high above the planet, and an infrared-imagery map to show details a person's eyes would miss.

The service combines technology from Google Maps, the company's road-map service, with detailed scientific maps of Mars. NASA researchers Noel Gorelick and Michael Weiss-Malik joined Google in the project.

The new service was launched on the birthday of Lowell, a member of the distinguished Lowell family in Boston who studied Mars as a full-time career in the latter part of the 19th Century. Lowell's greatest contribution to astronomy, however, was in his search for "Planet X" beyond Neptune. His work led to the discovery of Pluto in 1930.

Google on Monday added a picture of Mars and a telescope to its homepage logo. The icons link to Google Mars.