Managing the Deluge of 'Big Data' from Space

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Managing the Deluge of 'Big Data' from Space
« on: October 25, 2013, 10:38:20 PM »
For NASA and its dozens of missions, data pour in every day like rushing rivers. Spacecraft monitor everything from our home planet to faraway galaxies, beaming back images and information to Earth. All those digital records need to be stored, indexed and processed so that spacecraft engineers, scientists and people across the globe can use the data to understand Earth and the universe beyond.

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