NASA to Give 100TB of Space Images to Microsoft
Posted 03/25/09 at 04:39:53 PM by Andy Salisbury
While Google continues to pull ahead with a healthy share of planetary images, Microsoft announced this week that they signed a deal that gives them access to 100TB worth of NASA’s images, that will ultimately find their way onto the WorldWide Telescope website.
Microsoft has announced that they plan on working with NASA in order to develop “the technology and infrastructure necessary to make the most interesting NASA content.” The content, which will be available on Microsoft’s virtual telescope for exploring the universe, WorldWide Telescope, should be available later this year.
And, for those keeping tabs on just how big 100TB of data is, that’s enough to fill 20,000 DVDs.
Image Credit: Microsoft WorldWide Telescope
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Submitted by BAMT on Thu, 03/26/2009 - 12:46pm
Of course, being Microsoft, they use Silverlight to access the data.
they better be in HD :)
Submitted by comptech08 on Thu, 03/26/2009 - 5:26am
they better be in HD :)
:O
Submitted by DBsantos77 on Wed, 03/25/2009 - 6:59pm
And we still haven't found anything interesting on other planets or even space? What the hell are those images of???
interesting
Submitted by mesiah on Fri, 03/27/2009 - 10:40pm
We've found all kinds of interesting things, just no little green men. But when you are taking pictures of things that are hundreds of trillions of miles away, It's kind of hard to make out Alf giving us the finger.
Wow...
Submitted by HellTempest on Wed, 03/25/2009 - 4:59pm
That's an awful lotta images...
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