Theyre made possible by Googles Space Act Agreement with NASA, which enabled NASA Ames researchers to develop much of this content.

If you’re all the way zoomed out, a list of planets and moons you can explore will automatically pop up on the left side of the screen. To enter Mars in Google Earth, click the planets button in the main toolbar and select Mars: We hope you enjoy these latest additions. Toggle to “satellite view” in the left hand corner. Just go to Google Maps and zoom out (using the minus sign) as far as you can until you can see the entire planet Earth. This new feature can be hard to find if you don’t have a direct link. If you zoom in enough, you can see the various surface features - and their names - on each planet and moon. Images were previously available on Google Maps of only Earth, the Moon, Mars, Mercury, and the International Space Station, a Google spokesperson told Inverse. One of the notable sources Google took images from was the spacecraft Cassini, which took hundreds of thousands of pictures during its 20-year lifespan and journeys to Saturn. Google announced Tuesday it partnered with NASA and the European Space Agency to be able to generate the new detailed maps of Venus, Pluto, and many of Saturn’s moons. Google Maps has added a dozen planets and moons to its interface so users can explore more of space without ever leaving their home.

Explore mars in google earth 5.0