Fly Me to the Moon… and Beyond

August 9, 2009 · Posted in Apple

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the first moon walk, Google has added a new feature to its Google Earth software called The Moon in Google, which lets you see topographical information of the areas visited by the various Apollo landings as well as 3D renderings of items left behind by the moon missions (hat tip to CNet’s WebWare blog). Here’s Google’s introductory video (and if you don’t have Google Earth version 5, you can get the free download here)

For iPhone and iPod touch users, Carina Software is offering both its SkyVoyager and SkyGazer software iPhone apps (regularly $14.99 and $2.99 respectively) as a free download for just today (Monday, 20 July) to celebrate the anniversary. Both apps display every star the eye can see from earth as well as provides descriptions of constellations and the ability to show you the sky from any place on earth at any time within 100 years (past and future). And as the price would suggest, Sky Voyager is the more robust of the apps with a much larger database (with over 300,000 stars).

–Agen G.N. Schmitz

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