It's even odder than that. If you zoom OUT instead of IN, you'll realize that it is a mosaic of the same terrain repeated three times East to West. I think the whole thing was meant as a joke for the benefit of those who play with it long enough to zoom in all the way and nothing more. > > What's odd about the Google Moon map is the annotation > "Imagery (C) 2005 NASA". First of all, NASA products, being > in the public domain are not copyrighted. Secondly, the map > is almost certainly created from the 1980's USGS shaded > relief (airbrush) "I" (USGS Investigation series) maps. -- See message header for info on list archives or unsubscribing, and please send personal replies to the author, not the list.