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.