14 DAY TRIAL // Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the two billionaires who own the super giant Google, agreed to pay $1.3 million to NASA in order to allow them to land on an airport located near the company's headquarters. It seems like the two parts first planned to keep the agreement in secret but, after the Internet users spotted the Google airplane in Syllicon Valley, the NASA representatives confirmed the deal. According to San Jose Mercury News, the two Google owners will allow the organization to use the planes to carry the equipment and the personnel required for certain missions.
"NASA already has taken advantage of the agreement to study the Aurigid meteor shower, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, which reported the unusual arrangement between NASA and the Google co-founders Wednesday," the same publication added.
The plane is a Boeing 767-200 which is able to transport no less than 180 passengers so it might represent a real noise concern for the residents of the area, San Jose Mercury News informs.
This is not the first time when Google and NASA join their forces but this agreement is somehow different from the other ones. The two partners collaborated on satellite imagery and high-resolution photos with the space which were then included in Google's mapping tools or were used by the organization to analyze the elements.
Moreover, Google recently hired one of the NASA experts in order to improve its technologies and offer more details about this attractive side of the science. Obviously, the new appointment targets Google Earth and Google Maps, two solutions which provide high-resolution photos with the entire world. A few weeks ago, the downloadable application received a new function, codename Sky in Google Earth that enables us, the viewers, to analyze the sky, the galaxies and the other planets straight from our desktop.