Two former NASA specialists give tips for making the most of Google's 3-D space offerings—and offer hints for finding some little-known gems.

Michael Weiss-Malik, Product Manager, Mars in Google Earth So, Moon and Mars in Google Earth are a lot like a video game. You know, it's pretty popular right now to have these 3-D virtual reality games where you can walk around or sometimes fly around. And in Mars and Moon it's just like that except that you can actually explore another planet and they're based on real data, so instead of exploring you know, a fake world and shooting aliens you can actually explore a real alien world, and dive in and see craters and explore and, and also read some of the human stories on those planetary bodies where you can find out how humans have explored those places.

Michael So, we did Mars first because, prior to joining Google we actually both, Noel and I, wrote software for NASA Mars missions and, we actually started the original Google Mars which is a, a Web site before we came to Google. We called Google up and asked them if we could make it, basically.

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