If you're the kind of person who can spend hours upon hours clicking around Google Earth, there's a new toy for you. NASA has just released the most detailed 3D map of Mars ever made. Created by the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. This article is more than 2 years old. The Mars ...

In a herculean effort, Caltech's Bruce Murray Laboratory for Planetary Visualization has created what has now been deemed the most detailed 3D map of Mars ever made. The Global CTX Mosaic of Mars map ...

TEMPE, Ariz. ­ A new planet-spanning Web site, Google Mars (mars.google.com) launches today on what would have been Mars astronomer Percival Lowell’s 151st birthday. At the heart of the new Web site ...

As revealed by Steven Levy in his great book In The Plex, in the early days of Google one of the founders’ ideas for advertising the new search engine was to project a lazer image of the Google logo ...

A team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have some exciting ideas about the future of digital mapping for space exploration. They completed a paper titled ...

Last month, Google quietly killed off Google Sky Maps. But there’s still another way to virtually explore most of the solar system a la Google Maps: it’s called Google Maps in Space. Google Maps in ...

One of the challenges of sending human explorers to Mars is that, due to the logistics of the journey, they will have to be on the planet’s surface for considerably longer than the missions of a few ...