“The ISS has technical equipment on all surfaces, with lots of cables and a complicated layout with modules shooting off in all directions-left, right, up, down. Pesquet then rotated himself around the point.įor four months, from February until May, Pesquet gradually collected photos which were then sent back to Earth and stitched together to form a 360 view. Working with a replica of the space station at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, the company developed a solution: affix two bungee cords to the walls of a module, thus creating a fixed point for the camera. Google had to design an entirely new gravity-free method of collecting images. “Without gravity, it’s basically impossible to have a single point that you’re rotating around.” “We usually use tripod to ground the imagery at a single point and rotate the camera around that point,” said Yick. In space, a tripod would just start floating. Individuals mapping for Google usually put a camera on a tripod, which is then rotated to get a full 360 degree view.
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