Via BBC News: “Microsoft has now released, in beta form, its long-awaited WorldWide Telescope, a free tool that pieces together some of the world’s best ground telescope and satellite images, using data and imagery from NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer telescopes and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, among others. The tool allows users to pan and zoom around the planets and view anything from distant galaxies to exploding stars. It also features guided tours from some of the world’s top astronomers”
 
For amateur astronomers like myself, this is a great tool to travel around the solar system and beyond. The best part is I don’t have to shell out $20MM to the Russian Space program to experience it, yet I can get the benefit of billions of dollars of technology all on my computer.
 
I could not find any remnants of the Apollo missions on the moon,  so perhaps the conspiracy of the lunar landing being completed in a studio, may yet live on…..
 
http://www.worldwidetelescope.org
 
Vito Greto