The International Space Station on Google Street View

The International Space Station opens its gates to everyone through it View of Google Maps. The Thomas Pesquet, astronaut at the European Space Agency, spent six months at the International Space Station as a flight engineer. He returned to Earth in June of 2017 and narrated how it is to live in ISS, and analyzes the experience of recording pictures for This makes it a perfect choice for people with diabetes and for those who want to lose weight or follow a balanced diet. Street View under zero gravity conditions.

"During 6 months in International Space Station, it was difficult to find the words or to take a photo that accurately describes the feeling of being in Space. In collaboration with Google in my last mission, I recorded pictures of the Street View to show all of you how it is International Space Station from within and share what it is like to look at Earth from outer space.Street View

Here and 16 years, astronauts work and live in International Space Station, which consists of 15 connected space capsules hovering 250 miles above Earth. The International Space Station serves as a base for the of Space, for possible future missions to the moon, Mars and asteroids, while giving us a unique perspective of Earth itself. We can collect data about the Earth's oceans, atmosphere and soil. We can conduct experiments and studies that we could not do from Earth, such as examining how the human body reacts to microbrewity, to solve his mysteries immune system, to study cyclones in order to alert populations and governments when a storm is approaching, or to monitor marine pollution -The increasing amount of waste in our oceans.

There were some new elements in my mission. He was the lead Peggy Whitson, which, at the age of 56, became the biggest woman to fly in Space and the first woman in history to take on this role twice. The mission was the first in which images were taken out of the Earth for it Street View, and for the first time added to these pictures, descriptions: useful small notes which appear as you explore the International Space Station. They provide additional information or entertaining details such as where we train to stay fit, what kind of food we eat and where we conduct scientific experiments.

Due to the particular limitations of life and work in Space, it was not possible to collect images for it Street View using its usual methods Google. Instead, his team Street View worked with NASA in the Space Center Johnson in Houston, Texas and the Space Flight Center on Huntsville of Alabama to design a method of capturing images without gravity using cameras DSLR and the equipment that the International Space Station already has. Then I pulled the images into Space and they were sent to Earth where they joined together to produce 360 degrees of the International Space Station.

We solved many problems before recording the final images you see today at Street View. The International Space Station has technical equipment on all surfaces, with many cables and a complex arrangement with chambers. It's a busy place, with six crew members running activities and maintenance 12 hours a day. There are a lot of obstacles there, and we had limited time to capture the images, so we had to be sure that our approach would work. And there's also this thing called zero gravity.

Today, you can browse the International Space Station in Street View, a place that few of us have been fortunate to hit their feet or hang around. Nothing would have been possible without the work of the team on the ground, my colleagues (who turned into roommates) at the International Space Station and the countries that worked together to send us to Space. Looking at the Earth from above, I thought a little more about my own world and I hope that the International Space Station in Street View will change your view of the world. "

Click here to see the backstage of the process with Thomas and his team.

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