If you have a couple of hours to kill and need something fun to do, give Google Street View a try. Even before virtual touring became a common solution to what to do over the weekend, this Google feature was a cool way to check out almost any part of the world from your computer.<\/p>\n
Accessible through Google Maps, you just dropped a pin and look around via photographs and who knew you didnt have to limit yourself to the planet Earth in the process?<\/p>\n
The International Space Station (ISS) is alsoavailablefor a detailed look-see throughGoogle Street View.<\/p>\n
The ISS is in orbit 250 miles from Earth and this 360 degree tour shows you how remarkable the lab, and the view, is in space.<\/p>\n
Thomas Pesquet worked with Google and other astronauts in putting together what is now called Outer Space View.<\/p>\n
Pesquet blogged:<\/p>\n
Because of the particular constraints of living and working in space, it wasnt possible to collect Street View using Googles usual methods.<\/p>\n
Instead, the Street View team worked with NASA at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas and Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama to design a gravity-free method of collecting the imagery using DSLR cameras and equipment already on the ISS.<\/p>\n
Then I collected still photos in space, that were sent down to Earth where they were stitched together to create panoramic 360 degree imagery of the ISS.<\/p>\n
There are also notes about the various features and instruments onboard, so you can learn a thing or two while youre poking around.<\/p>\n
Who doesnt need a little more space these days? Take a few minutes and explore the last frontier!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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