If you’ve always wanted to look around inside a spaceship, Google Street View now lets you explore the International Space Station (ISS) right from your computer. This is the first time Street View has ventured beyond planet Earth. The ISS is made up of 15 connected modules and Street View allows you to go between them. The feature also comes with dots you can click on to launch explanatory notes revealing fun facts like where the astronauts work out to stay fit, the kinds of food they eat, their sleeping quarters, where the space suits are kept and where scientific experiments are conducted.
The panoramic 360-degree imagery of the ISS couldn’t be created using Google Street View’s usual methods. So instead, the Google team worked with NASA and the Marshall Space Centre to create a “gravity-free method” of collecting pictures using DSLR cameras and equipment already on board. Thomas Pesquet, a European Space Agency astronaut on the ISS, then collected the photos in space and sent them down to Earth where they were stitched together to create the panoramas.
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