The Red Planet

Monday March 1, 2010

Over the last few days, I’ve been sorting out an itinerary for my forthcoming trip to China. I’ve been using Google Earth, sticking pins in the map to indicate places I may be interested in going. Anyway, in an idle moment, I decided to pay a visit to Mars instead, this being a feature that I had not tried before on Google Earth. But when I zoomed in on our near-neighbour, I found something odd: Google Earth had kindly transposed all of my place-markers from Earth to Mars, as the following picture shows:

The Red Planet

They don’t, as a friend observed when I told him about this, call it the red planet for nothing.

 


 


 

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