TELECOM Digest OnLine - Sorted: NASA To Make Data Available Through Google

NASA To Make Data Available Through Google

Neal McLain (nmclain@annsgarden.com)
Wed, 20 Dec 2006 06:43:50 -0600

From Satellite Today, December 20, 2006:

NASA has signed an agreement to make its archive of images and other
information available through Internet giant Google, NASA announced
Dec. 18.

Under a Space Act Agreement, NASA's Ames Research Center and Google
will make NASA's information, including weather visualization and
forecasting, 3-D maps of the moon and Mars, and tracking of the
International Space Station and the space shuttle, available on the
Internet,

The program is part of a NASA initiative to foster private-public
partnerships and future collaborations between NASA and Google could
include joint research, products, facilities, education and missions,
the agency said.

http://www.satellitetoday.com/st/headlines/15002.html

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