The International Space Station (ISS) has been added to Google Street View, making it the first off-planet location to be mapped by Google.
Searchers to Google Street View can now see inside all 15 modules of the ISS, according to TechCrunch. Astronauts on the station helped capture the views used by Google, including a SpaceX Dragon that was parked there at the time of the capture.
Some of the images have text descriptions, which is the first time those have appeared within the Maps platform, according to the BBC.
The European Space Agency also has an interactive tour of the ISS online.
For the Google project, astronauts worked in between their other duties, and the project took four months to complete.
"There are a lot of obstacles up there, and we had limited time to capture the imagery," astronaut Thomas Pesquet wrote in a blog, the BBC reported. The zero gravity also was a challenge for the astronauts.
“It adds a dimension of fun and one could argue also education, as it’s a tool you could see schools adopting if they are doing projects on space,” Ben Wood from the CCS tech consultancy said, the BBC reported.
Twitter users joked about the method of getting the images (Google uses a camera mounted on a car) and commented on how cool it is to be able to see inside the station.
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