As a young dorky kid with a bowl cut in the sixth grade, I went to Space Camp. I still remember being in mission control for our big shuttle mission and living up every second of it. I would consider myself a bit less of a nerd today but I still have space pictures in my room back home and the binder from when I created my rocket agency (did I mention I was a dork?). So it is not surprising that I follow NASA twitter updates and am looking forward to the space shuttle Discovery launch tonight.
I was checking my Google Reader earlier and stubled upon this video of Google Earth’s maps of Mars after reading about the 174th birthday of the famous Italian astronomer and cartographer Giovanni Schiaparelli.
The Mars addition to the Google Earth software is so interesting because it shows the tracks of all the landers that have been on the planet and a lot of other information.
Posted by codywb 
