Google, NASA and the world

There is a certain amount of excitement floating around the virtual globe blogosphere about the forthcoming news that google and NASA are working together on a project called iEarth.

These rumours stem from an article published in New Scientist that explains the data overload problems NASA is having, and how throwing them out in the public domain, and making them readily accessible on the popular google earth, may solve these problems. Of course NASA has already been doing this to a certain extent as highlighted by a recent posting in the Google Earth Blog, but this seems to be the first time there will be widespread collaboration.

Possible data source for me to use, though it may come onstream a little late to use officially.