When you get tired of looking at things on our planet via Google Earth, turn you sights towards the moon. NASA and the mega search engine team up for, wait for it, Google Moon.

The newly launched site lets you click through Google markers on the moon to access newly released photos and content from the Apollo missions, including panoramic shots from the moon, audio and video clips, and diaries of the astronauts' activities while bopping around the dimpled sphere.

Read more: wired.com 

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Think you could teach Nasa a thing or two about space travel?
'British astronauts should be trained for space missions'

Google, the world's largest search engine, has established a $30 million (£15 million) prize fund to reward the first private company to send a robotic explorer to the Moon.
The last manned Moon landing was in 1972


To secure the top award the vehicle would have to land safely on the Moon and travel at least 500 metres across the surface, sending data and video clips back to Earth.

The challenge is the latest initiative from the X Prize Foundation, which in 2004 paid out $10 million to the team behind the SpaceShipOne, the first private manned craft to reach the edge of space.

Full story: telegraph.co.uk 

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