A partnership between NASA and Microsoft to bring high-resolution images of Mars to Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope is almost ready for public viewing. The Web-based application will show the surface of the red planet in such detail that viewers will be able to see "little rocks" and tracks left behind by NASA's Mars rovers, according to Chris Kemp, NASA's recently named CTO for IT. More Government Insights Whitepapers * The Know-IT-All’s Guide to eDiscovery (ebook) * Enterprise Content Management: From Strategy To Solution Videos InformationWeek's Fritz Nelson shares his first moments with his new friend, the iPad. Palm unveiled its long-awaited platform, the Pre, at CES in Las Vegas. Not only is the hardware impressive, the underlying operating system, Palm's Web OS, is even more phenomenal. Yahoo aims at mobile developers with an open developer platform called Yahoo Go. InformationWeek's Fritz Nelson shares his first moments with his new friend, the iPad. Kemp provided a preview of the new capability this week at the Gov 2.0 Expo show in Washington, D.C. He said the Mars imagery would become available on WorldWide Telescope "very soon." NASA and Microsoft announced plans to work together on the Mars mapping project in March 2009, and in November they introduced an educational Web site called "Be A Martian" that lets students and other users view Mars imagery in an interactive, education http://www.eweek.com/
NASA and Microsoft Corp. announced plans to make planetary images and data available via the Internet under a Space Act Agreement
Wow! It will be super awesome to see some part of Mars when they start working on this project. I'll check out the website called "Be A Martian". Thanks for passing the news!
oh , the mecrosoft world is so fantasitic , we shall enjoy it , we can get what we want to get at google or yahoo!
mecrosoft world is the new world , it is colorful and wonderful , we are eager to get some fresh things from it in the coming centry!