Visible Earth - NASA using BitTorrent technology

[Jorge]

About a year back, NASA started experimenting with BitTorrent technology with the World Wind project, World Wind lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth. Leveraging Landsat satellite imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, World Wind lets you experience Earth terrain in visually rich 3D.

 

NASA's latest project Visible Earth, is a massive library of photos captured from different NASA sources. Using BitTorrent, you can download 2.9 gigs of imagery previously unavailable to the general public.

 

While testing Visible Earth / BitTorrent, I was downloading at about 400k.

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[lifehacker]

So whats better, this program or google earth?

[Comax]

As far as I could see from the site its not a google earth replacement.

Its a cataloge of jpgs that can now be downloaded with BT as well as with a web link