MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., Dec. 18 -- NASA Ames Research
Center and Google have signed a Space Act Agreement that formally
establishes a relationship to work together on a variety of challenging
technical problems ranging from large-scale data management and massively
distributed computing, to human-computer interfaces.
As the first in a series of joint collaborations, Google and Ames will
focus on making the most useful of NASA's information available on the
Internet. Real-time weather visualization and forecasting, high-resolution
3- D maps of the moon and Mars, real-time tracking of the International