Space Shuttle Shadowed on the Internet
Contact: Philip Abrahamson
Tel:+44-(0)208-518-6090 (GMT)
E-mail: philip@mobilemaps.com
While NASA has embarked on an eleven day Space Shuttle
mission to map the globe in three-dimensions, the Internet site
mobilemaps.com is following the Shuttle’s movements with new three
dimensional map technology.
Internet users visiting the mobilemaps.com site can now interactively walk
around a virtual representation of the Earth underneath the Space Shuttle’s
live orbit, and get a taste of what will become available when the mission
is completed.
When NASA’s newly acquired data is visualised with software such as that
used on mobilemaps.com, the general public will be able to virtually
explore much of the globe with remarkable realism. To date such high
definition data has been selectively available and often expensive to obtain.
Virtual tourism, route-planning, navigation, and geographic web-browsing
are applications that will benefit significantly with the availability of
the new data.
NASA mission information – http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/
Live feed at Mobilemaps – http://www.mobilemaps.com/cgi-bin/shuttle
Contact: Philip Abrahamson
Tel:+44-(0)208-518-6090 (GMT)
E-mail: philip@mobilemaps.com
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