Moon Overlays
Update 11/2009
This collection of moon overlays was originally created before Google released their amazing version of Google Moon (View | Explore menu in Google Earth). I’ve now gone back and updated the original collection of moon overlays to remove duplicate data, remove some broken links, and supplement Google’s Moon data. Unfortunately, I can no longer get the NASA/JPL Moon WMS Server or Map-A-Planet WMS Server to work with Google Earth, so those overlays have been removed. Has anyone else been able to get them to work with Google Earth??
The following layers are included:
- Features - Locations of about 9,000 craters and other lunar features (Originally compiled by Jonathan McDowell).
- Topography – Color shaded relief map of the moon from USGS.
- Color - Color Mosaic from Arizona State University Space Exploration Resources.
- High Resolution – Grayscale image from Clementine mission with source image from Northwestern University. This is similar to the Visible Imagery layer in Google Moon. I believe my version has a little more detail than Google Moon when zoomed in close to the surface.
Simply open the KML file linked above with Google Earth. Google Earth should ask if you want to switch to Moon mode.
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