Google Partners With High-Tech Telescope to Map Universe
Google Earth was just a start, now Google is planning to assist scientists and general public to explore and map the universe. This week the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) project announced, which Google has joined with the team of 19 universities and national laboratories. This LSST would be the world’s largest astronomical survey project.
Scheduled to come online by 2013, LSST would completely survey the night sky every three days from a mountaintop in northern Peru. The telescope’s three billion-pixel imager, the biggest digital camera ever built would create huge quantities of data. Experts say about 30,000 gigabytes worth of images would be captured every night.
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