Pulse2 Technology and Social Media News » WorldWide Telescope http://pulse2.com Sun, 27 May 2012 19:13:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Microsoft Partners Gets 100TB Of Space Data From NASA For WorldWide Telescope http://pulse2.com/2009/03/28/microsoft-partners-gets-100tb-of-space-data-from-nasa-for-worldwide-telescope/ http://pulse2.com/2009/03/28/microsoft-partners-gets-100tb-of-space-data-from-nasa-for-worldwide-telescope/#comments Sun, 29 Mar 2009 02:26:09 +0000 Amit Chowdhry http://pulse2.com/?p=12933 Continue reading →]]> Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) are competing for who has more data and imagery of outer space.  Last month Google revealed Mars 3D and now Microsoft released data of their own of the planet Mars on their WorldWide Telescope software.

Through another agreement that Microsoft made with NASA, the software giant now has access to over 100 terabytes of data (20,000 DVDs) from the Ames Research Center.  Ames is based in Mountain View, California and is physically located next to Google’s headquarters.  Microsoft previously used 3D images in their Photosynth software from the Kennedy Space Center.

[via VentureBeat]

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