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by aurelian15 3948 days ago
This entire tour is interesting and enjoyable! Just spent an entire evening -- almost three hours -- looking around and watching the videos. Many kudos to Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti for her very concise explanations and demonstrations.

The panoramas are of very high quality (except for the inevitable dead pixels). It is nice to see all the Ethernet cables, electrical outlets, stopwatches, valves, tools or just the video projector connected via VGA to a notebook in Node 1, just before you fly into the Russian module. And yes, there is a striking contrast between the Russian and the US/European/Japanese modules.

I especially recommend watching the time-lapse video shot by Alexander Gerst:

http://wsn.spaceflight.esa.int/videos/F_2014/F_Blue_Dot/1417...

Edit:

Btw. executing the following code in the JS console

  "{" + pano.getCurrentNode() + "}\",\"" + pano.getPan() + "/" + pano.getTilt() + "/" + pano.getFov()
gives you a string encoding the current position. You can restore that position by copy and pasting it into the "pano.openURL()" method. Examples:

  pano.openUrl("{node5}","216.49016925709486/38.116922404005344/47.440801242792304") // The IMAX...
  pano.openUrl("{node5}","288.6799234893748/17.169120787478608/17.33030268127927") // ...and its CF cards