{"id":78926,"date":"2018-05-21T18:42:20","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T01:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/a-little-known-feature-in-google-maps-lets-you-explore-our-local-solar-system-heres-how-to-visit-mercury-venus-and-other-planets-and-moons-in-google-maps"},"modified":"2018-05-26T07:09:32","modified_gmt":"2018-05-26T14:09:32","slug":"a-little-known-feature-in-google-maps-lets-you-explore-our-local-solar-system-heres-how-to-visit-mercury-venus-and-other-planets-and-moons-in-google-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/a-little-known-feature-in-google-maps-lets-you-explore-our-local-solar-system-heres-how-to-visit-mercury-venus-and-other-planets-and-moons-in-google-maps","title":{"rendered":"A little-known feature in Google Maps lets you explore our local solar system \u2014 here\u2019s how to visit Mercury, Venus, and other planets and moons in Google Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-little-known-feature-in-google-maps-lets-you-explore-our-local-solar-system-heres-how-to-visit-mercury-venus-and-other-planets-and-moons-in-google-maps.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most people just use Google Maps to get directions from A to B, but it\u2019s also an incredible educational tool in its own right.<\/p>\n<p>Using Google Maps is a great way to learn more about the various cities and countries around the world. But many people might not know that Google Maps can also be used to explore <em>other<\/em> worlds besides Earth.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s right: If you visit Google Maps and zoom out far enough, you\u2019ll have the option to explore several planets and moons in our own solar system.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/google-maps-space-solar-system-planets-moons-2018-5\">http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/google-maps-space-solar-syste...2018&#45;5<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people just use Google Maps to get directions from A to B, but it\u2019s also an incredible educational tool in its own right. Using Google Maps is a great way to learn more about the various cities and countries around the world. But many people might not know that Google Maps can also be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79056,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78926\/revisions\/79056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}