Google Street View Comes to Large Hadron Collider at CERN

 By 
Stan Schroeder
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Google Street View Comes to Large Hadron Collider at CERN

Want to see CERN's Geneva lab, where the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is installed, from the inside? You're in luck, cause Google has added Street View imagery from inside CERN's facilities to its Google Maps service.

The imagery shows CERN's laboratories, control centers and underground tunnels. Highlights include the Large Hadron Collider, the 7000-ton ATLAS detector, and ALICE, a heavy-ion detector on the LHC ring.

To capture the images, Google's Street View team worked with CERN for two weeks in 2011. Google has been on fire lately when it comes to Street View. A few weeks ago, the service launched a 360-degree tour of Galápagos Islands; two days before that, the Moto X manufacturing facility was added to Street View, and in August, Google added some of the world's best zoos to Street View.

Check out the imagery here and tell us what you think in the comments.

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