NASA released an Android version of its Earth Now app last
month, which provides nearly real-time satellite data of global
climate conditions. Color-coded global views of Earth's vital
signs, such as temperature, ozone, gravity, sea level and carbon
dioxide are available free through Earth Now, along with a few
written details. "Since its debut in February 2012, the iPhone
version of Earth Now has been downloaded nearly 250,000 times,"
JPL public engagement manager Michael Greene said in a
statement. "Additional NASA Earth science data sets will be
added in the future." The app is among several that NASA and JPL
have commissioned in recent years to drive up excitement for
their projects and put scientific data in the palm of anyone's
hand. There's the Spacecraft 3D app, available on Apple devices,
that uses augmented reality to put the Curiosity rover on
different backdrops. NASA also developed its Be A Martian app
this year, creating a user-friendly platform that offers Mars
images, video, animations and inf