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How to Use Google Moon to View Photo Stories of the Apollo Moon Landings

Written by: Tom · August 2, 2008 at 6:00 pm · Category: Google Moon

After completing my post on how to use Google to view the surface of the planet Mars, a reader commented that if you enjoy Google Mars, you will surely enjoy Google Moon. I have used Google Moon on occasion and I find it to be a neat tool.

Google Moon offers a variety of different tools that allow you to learn more about the surface of the moon. It also has many pictures that you can view to make the moon come to life! (Not really, but a living moon could be pretty fun… really… think about it.)

When you first go to Google Moon, you will notice that it opens up to the following page:

Google Moon centers around providing a rich, illustrative experience to its end users. As you can see, it has Moon photos for all of the Apollo missions that have successfully landed on the moon.

If you click on the Zoom in in the Apollo 11 speech bubble, you can see the Apollo 11 landing area in more detail.

As you can see there are 18 photos that you can view. Just click on any of the red pointers, or any of the photos at the bottom of the screen. I clicked on the American Flag photo (the 7th from the left) because it looked pretty interesting.

Upon clicking on a marker, you can view the photo and zoom in or move it around with your mouse. I zoomed in on the flag.

If you want to explore other Apollo missions, all you have to do is click on the Apollo Series link in the bottom left hand corner. I then selected Apollo 17, as you can see below.

From here you can view photos of the Apollo 17 mission, or go back and choose another mission.

If you have any questions about using Google Moon to view photos of the Apollo space missions, just leave a comment and I’ll get back to you as soon as possible. Thanks for reading!

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