Google teams up with NASA

Google and NASA have announced a partnership to make the space agency's data available to internet users.

Real-time weather forecasts and high-resolution maps of the moon and Mars will be some of the projects that the two organisations will be working on in the near future.

"This innovative combination of information technology and space science will make NASA's space exploration work accessible to everyone," said NASA's Michael Griffin.

NASA and Google will also be working on incorporating some of the space agency's data into the Google Earth application.

"NASA has collected and processed more information about our planet and universe than any other entity in the history of humanity," said Chris C Kemp of NASA. "Even though this information was collected for the benefit of everyone, and much is in the public domain, the vast majority of this information is scattered and difficult for non-experts to access and to understand."

Google and NASA have already worked on several projects together, including the launch of a collaborative website, though this is currently offline.

"Partnering with NASA made perfect sense for Google, as it has a wealth of technical expertise and data that will be of great use to Google as we look to tackle many computing issues on behalf of our users," said Eric Schmidt, chief executive of Google.

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