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Google and Nasa work together to distribute Ames data
Google and Nasa officially announced their special Space Act Agreement Monday. Through this new relationship, both companyies and government agency will work on technical problems that face large scale data management and human-computer interfaces. Google and NASA's Ames Research Center's first focus will be to make NASA's information readably available on the internet, namely real time weather tracking, high-res 3D maps of the moon and mars, and real time tracking of the International Space Station. This partnership, which began in September of last year, was a long while coming, but now that it's actually in the works, it's getting a lot of people excited at the possibilities that both organizations bring to the table in the long run.
[Update: Thanks to Jeremy for reminding me that NASA is still a government agency, and hasnt made the switch over to a company as of yet! ]
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rudelerius said 10:34AM on 12-19-2006
The Active Desktop item from Our Planet Earth From Space (http://satellite.ehabich.info/) is really cool; it tracks all kinds of information, but the NASA/Google collaboration could create a similar tool with an astounding level of interaction and depth of information that causes the OPEFS to pale in comparison, which is really saying something, since the OPEFS tracks "all current earthquakes, fires, cloud cover, temperatures, wind direction, hurricanes, active volcanoes, satellites, orbiting shuttles, space stations, day/night zones, Antarctic icebergs, ships, the moonphase, changing seasons, natural disasters and epidemics." It is pretty cool. Might even warrant its own post.
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Shunnabunich said 11:30AM on 12-19-2006
Do "high-res 3D maps of the moon and mars" mean we'll be seeing some major new content in Google Earth sometime this coming year? ;)
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Jeremy Zawodny said 12:24PM on 12-19-2006
Since when is NASA a "company"?
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Mysterius said 3:42PM on 12-20-2006
@Jeremy: Beat me to it. I didn't know that NASA was a company, either. Silly me; I always thought it was a governmental agency. ;)
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