{"id":4767,"date":"2009-07-21T21:46:14","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T12:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=4767"},"modified":"2009-07-21T21:46:14","modified_gmt":"2009-07-21T12:46:14","slug":"google-joins-forces-with-japanese-astro-labs-to-create-virtual-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/google-joins-forces-with-japanese-astro-labs-to-create-virtual-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Joins Forces With Japanese Astro Labs To Create Virtual Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Googles Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/logo_google.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"80\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4770\" title=\"NASA's Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/nasa_logo.gif\" alt=\"NASA's Logo\" width=\"102\" height=\"88\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"JAXAs Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/jaxa_logo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"46\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4771\" title=\"NAOJ's Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/naoj_logo.jpg\" alt=\"NAOJ's Logo\" width=\"145\" height=\"83\" \/><br \/>\nIn commemorating the 40th anniversary of the first human landing to the moon, on Tuesday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\">Google<\/a> introduced a 3D map showing you the entire surface of the moon, named &#8220;Moon in Google Earth&#8221;, which is available on version 5.0 or later of <a href=\"http:\/\/earth.google.com\/\">Google Earth<\/a>.   Besides moon surface photos supplied by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/\">NASA<\/a>, Japanese astronomical laboratories such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jaxa.jp\/index_e.html\">JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency)<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nao.ac.jp\/E\/\">NAOJ (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan)<\/a> also provide Google with terrain data collected by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jaxa.jp\/projects\/sat\/selene\/index_e.html\">a Japanese moon observing satellite<\/a>, in order to reproduce more accurate altitudes in the images.<br \/>\nAuthor&#8217;s note: Tomorrow&#8217;s solar eclipse is now causing an explosive access levels to NAOJ&#8217;s website, you may have difficulty in reaching the destination of the above link.<br \/>\n&#8220;Moon in Google Earth&#8221; has several optional menus including Appolo mission, guide tour, and the satellite&#8217;s aerial pictures presented by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asu.edu\/\">Arizona State University<\/a>, etc.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4768\" title=\"Moon in Google Earth\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/googlemoon.jpg\" alt=\"Moon in Google Earth\" width=\"413\" height=\"316\" \/><br \/>\n&#8220;Moon in Google Earth&#8221;: SELENE Impact Point<br \/>\n<object width=\"560\" height=\"340\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/AxDNWXZpC3g&amp;hl=ja&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/AxDNWXZpC3g&amp;hl=ja&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><br \/>\n3D video(HD) reproduced from terrain data collected by SELENE, which was making a final approach to the expected impact point on the moon.  Quoted from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/jaxachannel\">JAXA Channel [E\/J]<\/a> on YouTube.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In commemorating the 40th anniversary of the first human landing to the moon, on Tuesday, Google introduced a 3D map showing you the entire surface of the moon, named &#8220;Moon in Google Earth&#8221;, which is available on version 5.0 or later of Google Earth. Besides moon surface photos supplied by NASA, Japanese astronomical laboratories such&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/google-joins-forces-with-japanese-astro-labs-to-create-virtual-moon\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Google Joins Forces With Japanese Astro Labs To Create Virtual Moon<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,17,23,24,35,37,38],"tags":[1401,1409,1830,2424,2523,2532,3268],"class_list":["post-4767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-company","category-japan","category-new-service","category-news","category-technology","category-usa","category-video","tag-google","tag-google-earth","tag-jaxa","tag-moon","tag-naoj","tag-nasa","tag-selene","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}