“Must be some empty space on here, somewhere?”
Google is extending its reach to the stars in an agreement with NASA that will allow it to present web visualisations of the US space agency’s data on the universe.
NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley on Monday announced a “Space Act Agreement” with Google that would include collaboration on large-scale data management and massively distributed computing as well as focusing on making the most useful of NASA’s information available over the internet.
The agreement follows Google’s decision last year to build a 1m square foot campus in a science park linked to the research centre.
There are plans for real-time weather visualisation and forecasting, high-resolution 3-D maps of the moon and Mars and real-time tracking of the International Space Station and the space shuttle.
Lots of detail in the article — lots of fun ahead for us all — sharing the talents and travels of each.
Microsoft who?
Realtime weather would be the cat’s ass. Realtime satellite traffic would be cool too (although I could see privacy commandos going nuts over that one.)
Frankly, I think advertising all over the shuttle would be a splendid idea. Anything to get the proper funding for real space exploration and colonization!
nasa needa all the help it can get – and this is good pr for google
How big of a TV screen did he say??
This is just so cool. Google is just doing one cool thing after another.
It’s so great that these huge money making machines like Google are using their money and expertise to make stuff available for the rest of us.