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Earth Day 2010: The world’s most powerful solar power tower

Today is Earth Day, the mission of which is to "broaden and diversify the environmental movement worldwide". Inspired by an excellent post over at the Google Earth Blog, today we're going to visit the Planta Solar 20 – the world's…

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Thursday, 22nd April 2010

More Gravitational Observatories

Just when my non-scientific brain had recovered from writing the recent LIGO post, my co-writer Noel kindly informed me that there are two similar gravitational observatories in Europe: GEO 600 in Germany and VIRGO in Italy. GEO 600 (Wikipedia, official…

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Wednesday, 14th April 2010

Fake villages

On a remote lane in South Wales, the Street View car catches a glimpse of an attractive hilltop town in the distance, with red-roofed houses clustering around the church spire. An aerial view of the town shows it to be…

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Wednesday, 7th April 2010

The Pennine Way

The recent expansion of Street View in the UK allows us to visit sections of the Pennine Way, Britain's most well known long distance walking path, where we can admire the scenery of three national parks without the inconvenience of…

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Friday, 26th March 2010

LIGO Gravitational Observatories

These two huge L-shaped structures visible at a very low zoom level are the LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) facilities in Livingston, Louisiana and Hanford, Washington. Each arm of the structures is 4km in length, making them longer than the…

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Friday, 19th March 2010

The Street View Best Streets Awards

Forget the Oscars - these are the awards that count at Google Sightseeing! The guys at Google are planning to expand their Street View coverage of the UK in the near future, and to get us in the mood they…

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Monday, 8th March 2010

Welcome to Google Sightseeing!

Google Sightseeing takes you on a tour of the world as seen from satellite or street views using Google Maps. Our team of authors present weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers.

Like this site? We published a photo book of the best entries, you should buy a copy.