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Old 18-December-2006, 04:52 PM
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..."This agreement between NASA and Google will soon allow every American to experience a virtual flight over the surface of the moon or through the
canyons of Mars," said NASA Administrator Michael Griffin at Headquarters
in Washington. "This innovative combination of information technology and
space science will make NASA's space exploration work accessible to
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wonder what the resolution will be cause flying around a low res. virtual world could be pretty boring. Look at Mnt. Everest on googleearth to see what I mean.
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wonder what the resolution will be cause flying around a low res. virtual world could be pretty boring. Look at Mnt. Everest on googleearth to see what I mean.
Besides; Google mars has been around for at least 6 months now. This story is only about the agreement to cooperate. Sounds more like an information gathering coup for Google than anything else.
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