NASA Google Announcement

The expect announcement from Goolge/NASA last week got pushed to this week. CNET offers this interpretation:

The first collaboration between Google and NASA Ames will concern the availability of NASA information over the Internet. For example, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said in a statement that “soon” there will be Google Earth flyovers available for the surfaces of Mars and the moon. Additional data will include real-time weather forecasting and visualization, as well as tracking of the International Space Station and shuttle activity.

Future NASA-Google developments in the works aren’t limited to fusing NASA data into Google applications. Other planned projects mentioned in Monday’s announcement deal with human-computer interaction, education-related collaborations and possibly even joint missions.

I’m thinking this is consistent with the info I read last week in New Scientist. The website (currently yeilding errors) is supposed to be http://www.googlenasa.com/.