Lecture Description
03/04/2009
Google Earth, now with Mars!
Ross A. Beyer, SETI Institute and NASA Ames
Google, Inc., has released Google Earth 5.0 which contains a Mars 3D mode. Working with engineers at Google, we helped collect, parse, and organize the vast store of Mars geospatial data available to the public into a form that could be used by Google Earth. The Mars mode presents data acquired both from orbit and on the surface, presented fully integrated into the Google Earth geospatial browser. Ross will cover a brief history of the project, take you on a detailed tour of all of the features, and answer your questions about using Mars mode for science, education, or fun, as well as answering questions about how to view your own data in the client. The team behind this talk includes NASA Ames engineers Matt Hancher and Michael Broxton.
Course Index
- David Morrison: Mission to a Potentially Threatening Asteroid
- Laura T. Iraci: Laboratory Studies of Water Ice Cloud formation under Martian Conditions
- Jeffrey Van Cleve: The Race to Detect the First Earth-sized Planet
- Ron Greeley: Surface modifications by winds on Earth, Mars, Venus, and Titan
- JoAnne Hewett: The Hunt for Hidden Dimensions
- Franck Marchis: Multiple Asteroid Systems: New Techniques to Study New Worlds
- Interstellar and Early Solar System Organics in Samples from Comet Wild 2
- Ross A. Beyer: Google Earth, now with Mars!
- Jeffrey Scargle: Tools for Probing the Universe
- Richard Muller: Discovery of Strong Cycles in Fossil Diversity
- Rachel Mastrapa: Weathering on Icy Satellites: Probing the Near Surface Using Infrared Spectroscopy
- John McCarthy: Convergent evolution of our own and extra-terrestrial intelligence
- Jasper Halekas: The Dynamic Lunar Environment
- Tom Abel: First Things in the Universe
- Julie Chittenden: Experimental determination of the effect of salts, regolith, and wind
- Philip Russell: Aerosol particle roles in climate change
- Edwin Kite: True Polar Wander and Climate on Late Hesperian/Amazonian Mars
- Robert Landis: NEOs Ho!! The Asteroid Option
- Terry Fong: Field Testing of Utility Robots for Lunar Surface Operations
- Mikhail Kreslavsky: Geological record of recent climate change on Mars
- Amos Nur: Apocolypse: Earthquakes, Archeology and the the Wrath of God
- Robert Lillis: Death of the Martian Dynamo
- Brian Jeffs: Progress in phased array feed development for radio astronomy
- Ray Kurzweil: The Implications of the Law of Accelerating Returns for the Search for ETI
- The impact and recovery of asteroid 2008 TC3
- Dr. Beth Ann Hockey: How to Speak to Your Computer
- Janice Bishop: The Surface of Mars
- John Balboni: How do You Qualify Heat Shields on Earth?
- Kevin Zahnle: Earth After the Moon-forming Impact
- Dave Brain: Atmospheric Escape and Aurora on Mars
- Michael Carr: Mars - The Water Story and Prospects for Life
- Risa Wechsler: Connecting Galaxies, Halos, and Star Formation Rates Across Cosmic Time
- Natalie Batalha: Kepler's First Peek
- Darlene Lim: Pavilion Lake - Diving Deep to Get Us to the Moon and Mars
- Paul Kalas: HST Imaging of Fomalhaut
- Reid Parsons: Where is Mars' Ice?
- Markus Aschwanden: Solar Flares and Coronal Mass Ejections Observed with STEREO
- Nathan Bramall: Detecting Organics Using Fluorescence Spectroscopy
- Dr. Stefan Funk: Fermi-LAT Observing the Universe With High-Energy Gamma-Ray Eyes
- Special Panel: LCROSS Mission - The First Results of the Impact
- Elmar Fuchs: The Inner Structure of a Floating Water Bridge
- Ben Zuckerman: The Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe - Some Great Challenges for SETI
- David Hollenbach: Water, Molecular Oxygen and Ice in Star-Forming Molecular Clouds
- Linda Spilker: The Rings of Saturn as seen by Cassini CIRS
- Claudio Maccone: Deep Space Flight and Communications
- Lauren Wye: Titan's Ontario Lacus
- Steven S. Vogt: Finding Planets Around Nearby Stars
- Gerry Harp: Exploring Alternative SETI Search Algorithms with the ATA
Course Description
The colloquiums are free and open to the public, and run from noon to 1 pm on Wednesdays at the SETI Institute, 515 N. Whisman Road, Mountain View, California.