http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/cb/mod_cb_easter_eggs/moon_peg/moon_peg_000.png

It will be released on July 20th, and will end the next day.

<<This Monday we'll be making a special announcement about Google Earth at the Newseum in Washington DC. The event will last from 11am to 12:30pm and will feature Google speakers, special guests, and product demos.>>

http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009/07/youre-invited.html

After Mars in Google Earth, now the Moon is next? :-)

Well, tomorrow is the 40th anniversary for the first man on the moon. Google decided to make the moon as Earth.
Should be interesting. :)

40 years ago today (20th July 1969) man first stepped on the moon. Then 183 years after the first lunar landing, man first stepped on Mars.

Hmm no Doodle?

not yet
still nothing on youtube too except a "Spotlight: Apollo 11 40 Years On"

Youtube Logo:
http://s.ytimg.com/yt/img/logo_lunar-vfl109325.png

Nothing on Google, looks like there won't be :-(Not like them to miss any opportunity to change their logo :-)

Maybe they need to remove the triforce first... Nice one from YouTube. Street View pegmoon is also active since this morning.

Moon is now available in 3D in Google Earth.

http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009/07/fly-yourself-to-moon.html

[<<Today, on the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing, Google is proud to announce the release of Moon in Google Earth, bringing you one step closer to understanding the experience of standing on the moon. It brings the Apollo stories out of the history books, recreating them in an immersive and interactive 3D environment.>>]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dClpox7qinI

Here it is!
http://www.google.com/logos/moonlanding09.gif

Very classy!

Any triforce? :P

Nope no triforce :-). It went live to correspond with lunar landing at 20:17 UTC 40 years ago. (via: http://twitter.com/googlemaps/status/2743898319). By the way, there was a Doodle in 2005 to for the first man on the moon.

No triforce doodle, but at least they put E.T. in there!

(Warning: this is a joke. While I didn't photoshop this, I simply searched for any interesting pattern at all, which is pretty much available in any sufficiently complex picture!)

http://blogoscoped.com/files/moon-doodle-pattern.png

He he..
Nice find Philipp.. :)

<< To commemorate this event the Command Module code (Comanche054) and Lunar Module code (Luminary099) have been transcribed from scanned images to run on yaAGC (an open source AGC emulator) by the Virtual AGC and AGS project. >>
Wow!
http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2009/07/apollo-11-missions-40th-anniversary-one.html

Oh dear Phlipp, I haven't laughed as hard all week!

Haha nice!