Launching a project after a whopping one week in development, Google announced its extension of Google Maps and Google Earth-Google Moon. The new feature comes on the anniversary of Apollo 11's July 20, 1969 lunar landing and on the birthdays of two "moon baby" Google employees.
Google Moon feature also comes with a secret, which I won't spoil for everyone. But I highly recommend zooming in all the way to get a highly detailed image of the Moon's surface that may shed light a popular myth.
Google acquired the imagery courtesy of NASA and pinpoints the various touchdown spots of all NASA missions to the lunar surface. In time, it is hoped to also feature the Moon's 22 seas, 8 Soviet Luna landings, 3 Ranger impacts, and 7 NASA Surveyor landings.
The initiative was limited by time however. Google engineers only had a week to put it together, according to Google software engineer and moon baby, Larry Schwimmer.
Schwimmer, who shares a birthday with the Moon landing, said he made a birthday wish on a
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