NASA to deliver space imagery through Google search engine

US space agency NASA is expanding their collaboration with search engine giant Google. NASA Ames Research Center has said in a statement that they would now deliver more of the space agency’s imagery and information through the web’s most popular search engine service.

This announcement comes after Google unveiled plans to build a 1 million-square-foot campus at the NASA center. This campus is to be located a few miles south of their Mountain View headquarters.

With this expanded deal, Ames will feed Google with its weather forecasting information, three-dimensional maps of the moon and Mars, and real-time tracking of the International Space Station and space shuttle flights.

NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said in a statement on this arrangement: “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.”