Monday, December 24, 2007

Tracking Santa

Maybe you don't know this yet, but NORAD tracks Santa's flight every year. However, this year (as far as I know it is the first), NORAD has teamed with Google and is plotting the flight using Google Maps, and actual video footage using Google Earth. This is an amazing melding of different technologies. The footage is available at YouTube.

Norad Tracks Santa Website



Here are links to a couple of other videos.

NORAD Tracks Santa - First Sighting

Santa visits the International Space Station

While you are at the website, check out how this started at the "Why we track Santa" page. What a great story, and a great example of how a mistake was turned into a neat tradition.

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