Skip to Navigation ↓ Finding your way around Mars The first step
in this activity is to change the view in Google Earth, to Mars.
Finding impact craters In order to find craters in Google Mars,
you can search for a particular crater using the 'Fly To' box,
together with the name of the crater, or its coordinates. You
can zoom in or out of the image by using the controls, and you
can drag the image by using either the controls or your mouse.
To help familiarise yourself with Google Mars, try the following
exercise: Comparing Mars craters with Earth craters Zoom in/out
of Google Mars until your window is filled with a Google Mars
image. Look at the distribution of impact craters in this image
and answer the following questions: