Google Maps adds the maps of 12 planets and satellites of the Solar System

The application allows traveling the celestial bodies and also the International Space Station.

The cartographic application Google Maps has incorporated into its platform the maps of 12 new stars of the Solar System, among them planets like Venus and satellites like Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, the fruit of the collaboration with NASA and the European Space Agency.

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In the 3D satellite mode section of Google Maps, with which you can navigate the geography of other planets, Google has increased the list with 12 new celestial bodies, including the planets Venus and Mercury, the dwarf planets Pluto and Ceres, and several of the satellites of Jupiter and Saturn, such as Io, Dione, Titan and Iapetus.

Like its application in satellite mode, Google Maps allows you to navigate the surface of the Solar System's stars, making 'zoom' and showing the main accidents of bodies, all of the rocky, such as craters, mountain ranges, plains and depressions, and the names they receive.

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For the elaboration of the map of Enceladus, one of Saturn's satellites, Google Maps has used the data compiled by NASA through the Cassini space probe, which recently crashed on the aforementioned planet. In his 20-year journey around the gaseous planet, Cassini found evidence of water under the icy surface of this moon, as Google explained in a 'post' of his blog.

Google Maps has used Reconstructions

As for maps of the rest of new celestial bodies added, including Europe, Ganymede, Rhea and Mimas, Google Maps has used reconstructions in three dimensions made by astronomical artist Björn Jónsson using images from NASA and the European Space Agency.

The new incorporations of Google Maps are added to other celestial bodies whose maps were already available on the platform, which in 2014 added for the first time the maps of the Moon and Mars to commemorate the second year of exploration of the Curiosity probe in the Red Planet.

Along with the planets, satellites, and exoplanets present in Google Maps, the application also allows you to tour the International Space Station and its main corridors, since its incorporation that took place last July.
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