Will Terra be terrific? NASA´s Terra mission provides new level of data, accessibility, and integration

There is no doubt the amount of data generated by NASA´s terra spacecraft is impressive, at about a terabyte per day, it is billed as the largest-ever civilian computational science undertaking. While the investigators say advances in hardware and theoretical knowledge have combined to allow for such leaps, the real secret to terra´s success will lie in how the scientific community reacts to the data