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"Enhanced with new data from NASA, Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope lets users make their own astronomic discoveries."

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Microsoft and NASA Team Up On 3-D Space Images

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SPACE.com Download time: Jul 15 2010 8:25 AM ET

WorldWide Telescope, Microsoft's galactic version of Google Earth, has been steadily increasing its fidelity ever since it launched in 2008. Now, thanks to a new collaboration with NASA, WorldWide Telescope has produced the most detailed spherical image of the heavens to date, along with a new 3-D, true color map of the surface of Mars.

As part of the new user experience in the WorldWide Telescope, Microsoft is also announcing a first of its kind: a high-resolution spherical TeraPixel sky map now available to viewers within the virtual telescope.…

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