
Man on the moon or a hoax in the Arizona desert? On Google, you may finally find the answer.
An 'extension' to their Google Maps service has surfaced: Google Moon (http://moon.google.com/)
The area displayed covers the lunar landing sites.
In theory, you should be able to zoom in close enough to see artifacts from the supposed missions such as landing craft and Lunar Rovers.
Try it -- zoom on in!
Here's some additional location data from a Slashdot post (http://science.slashdot.org
The largest object that is on the moon is the 14036kg SIVB from Apollo 15.
Located at 1.51S 17.48W (or as a WWURI: worldwind://goto/world=Moon
it isn't actually visible, possibly because that is its impact place, rather than a resting place (so it could well be smashed).
The largest intact objects are the Lunar Rovers, and there's three of them:
Apollo 15's rover (worldwind://goto/world=Moon
Apollo 16's rover (worldwind://goto/world=Moon
Apollo 17's rover (worldwind://goto/world=Moon
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