Google Maps: Watch the International Space Station! Yes, you can do it, via Google Street view

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Google Maps is being used by almost everyone to check directions. If you are new to a place, lost, or otherwise searching for a specific place, Google Maps can be of great help. But what if we tell you that you can even check out things far off in the sky? Yes, you can even see the International Space Station from the inside and making it all possible is the Google Street View feature in Google Maps? If you have not yet tried the Google Street View, use it now to see the International Space Station.

What is Google Street View? Well for the uninitiated, Street View, by Google Maps, is a virtual representation of our surroundings, consisting of millions of panoramic images. Street View’s content comes from two sources - Google and contributors, Google said. Using the Street View feature people from anywhere can virtually explore any part of the Earth- from the outside. Also Read: Stay Alert! Google Chats will now protect you THIS way

So, if you are willing to visit a place but could not go due to any reason, then you can use the Street View feature to explore that place virtually. The Google Street View feature can be accessed through Google Maps. All you need to do is to just drop a pin and look around via photographs. And of course, you are not limited to the planet Earth in the process! You can look for other planets, the moon, and what not.

As already stated, you can use the feature to virtually visit the International Space Station (ISS) too. In a blog post dated July 20, 2017, Thomas Pesquet, Astronaut at the European Space Agency (ESA), who spent six months aboard the International Space Station (ISS) as a flight engineer, tells us about what it is like to live on the ISS and his experience capturing Street View