Visit Venus, Pluto and Saturn moons Enceladus and Titan via Google Maps

It will take some time before Saturn’s moon Titan can be chosen as a winter holiday destination, but it is now possible to visit this moon via Google Maps. Google has added some planets and moons from our solar system.

Google has expanded Maps so that a total of sixteen celestial objects can now be seen. In 2014 it was already possible to virtually view our own moon and Mars, but now Venus, Pluto, Mercury and some of the most interesting moons of Saturn have been added.

Google Maps users can view and zoom in on celestial objects for geographic features by selecting satellite mode in Maps and zooming far out from Earth. Then a list will appear with all available planets and moons that can be viewed.

These include Enceladus, a small icy moon near Saturn. This moon is particularly interesting because all the conditions are in place for life forms to thrive. The Cassini space probe, which launched on October 15, 1997 and sank into Saturn’s atmosphere on September 15 this year, discovered during a flyby in April that there is hydrogen in the geyser fountains of Enceladus. That points to the presence of hydrothermal activity in the ocean, which is below the ice layer on the surface of the moon.

Google used the many photos Cassini captured of the moons during the mission to add the various new Saturn moons. Despite the fact that the spacecraft has made frequent orbits around Saturn, Google has not included this ring planet in Google Maps. The other gas giant, Jupiter, and Uranus are also missing.