Apollo 11 orbits moon

The launch of new images and features for Google Earth was part of the festivities at the X Prize Cup held outside of Las Cruces, N.M. on October 20 to 21. Several historic and futuristic 3D space images from the Google Earth Community were posted especially for the X Prize Cup. Plus, the first same-day image of the area was posted on Google Earth and a live Webcam of the festival was available.

This animation shows the Apollo 11 space capsule orbiting the moon. Apollo 11, of course, was the vehicle that brought Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the moon and home.

The instructions suggest turning off the Earth boundaries but it was fun to show off Google's future lunar headquarters.

October 25, 2006 10:53 AM PDT

Photo by: fabri2/Google Earth