
Just a passing thought
Google Mars?Friday, September 02, 2005Listening to Hard Fi
I was just reading the news (the nice bits, not all the nasty stuff going on in New Orleans) and there was an article about one of the rovers on mars. They've been driving around the surface for 14 months now, and this one just made it to the top of a mountain! They took a panoramic picture from the summit. It made me think wouldn't it be cool if you could fly around mars just like in google earth, surely they should have all the data from things like the mars express. Apparently they do! The company that wrote the software and supply the data for google earth have a subscription version that lets you view mars! There is a free trial, but I havent tried it out yet. I'll have a go when I get a chance and let you know (if you're interested!).
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Only problem is I get to the site only to find out that it's for Nvidia cars only !?!?!
Who (Except Keyhole, obviously) writes sofware for only one Graphics chipset?
Hopefully they'll provide for other chipsets in the near future, after all there's a huge chunk of the market just waiting to be enlightened by this software.
I'm only a little disgruntled because I have a reasonably good ATI card and I don't want to have to pay for a new one.