NASA paints Google Earth with near real-time data

This looks cool.

NASA paints Google Earth with near real-time information by ZDNet‘s Garett Rogers — NASA is now providing some interesting KML files that add near real-time overlays to Google Earth. The information they are using comes from MODIS (Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) — some data from this source (updated daily) can be viewed on Google Earth by clicking here. One example of the new data is temperature maps.