Now there's a backup plan for those of us who dream of seeing the northern lights but are never in the right place at the right time. Then they waited for an aurora to show up-not guaranteed on any given day. The Street View team used a camera system on a tripod to capture these views from the middle of a frozen lake. Only when we truly understand will we begin to care, and only when we truly care will we take action.” “Through my time at Gombe, I learned first-hand how important it is for each of us to understand the world we share. The end goal: get more people interested in far-flung conservation. “We were warned to watch for the trifecta: poisonous snakes, army ants, and killer bees,” says Allie Lieber, program manager at Google Earth Outreach.) (The Trekkers were a little more out of their element. More than 50 years after Jane Goodall began her legendary chimpanzee research in this park, a Street View team captured Gombe's primates still doing what they do best: fishing for termites and sunning on the beach. “We spent the better part of our days handing the cameras back and forth so one person could take photos and the others could jump up and down and blow into their hands to warm up.” “We had to take off our gloves to get the best shot,” he says. Google Adventurer (yes, that's a real job title) Dan Fredinburg says the team brought off-the-shelf Canon cameras for this trip, and the staff didn't handle the cold well. On their 17-day trek, the Street View team covered as many campsites as possible so that future visitors can better plan their route. The view to the summit is also a treasure trove of information for anyone planning to climb Aconcagua. It's the only way any of us will ever summit the world's highest mountain outside of Asia faster than Kilian Jornet or Karl Egloff. It’s not wasting time on the Internet if you’re exploring the world, right?
It's a small hurdle as the tech giant seeks to digitize the world for the purposes of conservation, education, and armchair travel.Īs Google captures views of increasingly difficult-to-reach places (most recently the Sherpa community of Khumbu), we present eight of our favorites, plus the stories behind the incredible images. The low-tech solution: stopping regularly to swat away buildup around the lenses. “While we were walking through low-hanging trees, spiders would drop into the camera mast and start spinning their webs,” says Google Earth Outreach Program Manager Raleigh Seamster, who helped bring Street View to the Galapagos Islands in 2013. Keeping the Trekker's 15 lenses free of debris (and bugs) is a common challenge for the teams capturing immersive panoramas of ever-wilder locations. But one thing you won't ever see in the images? Surprise spiders. Google Street View continues to expand its range, taking desk jockeys to some of the planet's most remote corners.
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