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Visualization of NASA Campaign Mission Vertical Profiles Using Google Earth Aijun Chen, Gregory Leptoukh, and Steven Kempler Aijun Chen Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center for Spatial Information Science and Systems Center (GES DISC), George Mason University, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 610.2 6301 Ivy Lane, Ste. 620 Greenbelt, MD, 20771, USA Greenbelt, MD 20770, USA Aijun.Chen@ Abstract --Google Earth, as the pioneer of Virtual Globes, is maturity of Web 1.0 and the emergence of Web 2.0 and 3.0, changing the way in which professionals acquire, assess, organize, online Web-based platforms and applications are becoming manage, share, visualize, and utilize three-dimensional geospatial mainstream in the information technology era. Virtual Globes, data in a virtual environment for scientific research. Google such as Google Earth and Microsoft Virtual Earth, will be Earth is also changing how the public interacts with virtual playing increasingly important roles in scientific research and globes to facilitate their daily life. Keyhole Markup Language (KML) is the key technology making this change possible. NASA applications and people’s daily lives in the near future [1]. campaign missions have collected large volumes of vertical NASA campai