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Google Expeditions was a virtual reality (VR) platform developed by Google and designed for educational institutions. Using Android or iOS smartphones , the companion mobile app and head-mounted displays such as Google Cardboard or Daydream View , students (or other users) could take virtual trips to various destinations.
The expedition was the first to venture to the wreck site since the Titan submersible disaster that claimed the lives of five people last summer. RMS Titanic Inc., which holds the legal rights to ...
The expedition also captured images of elegant, cup-shaped glass sponges, which are thought to have the longest life span of any creature on the planet — up to 15,000 years, although the ...
In the aftermath of the wreck, Society Expedition refurbished an ice-class vessel and called it World Discoverer. It launched in 2002, resuming cruises. Society Expedition ceased operations in June 2004 after their new vessel was seized by creditors in Nome, Alaska. Two weeks later, it filed for chapter 7 liquidation bankruptcy. [12]
Dr. Sven Hedin at home in 1902 Sven Hedin signature on postcard to Johann Maria Farina 1935. Sven Anders Hedin, KNO1kl RVO, [1] (19 February 1865 – 26 November 1952) was a Swedish geographer, topographer, explorer, photographer, travel writer and illustrator of his own works.
A daguerreotype by Solomon Carvalho of a Plains Indian village in Kansas Territory taken during the Frémont Expedition in 1853. Solomon Nunes Carvalho (April 27, 1815 – May 27, 1897) was an American painter, photographer, author and inventor. [1]
Arnold Patrick Spencer-Smith FRHistS (17 March 1883 – 9 March 1916) was an English clergyman and amateur photographer who joined Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914–1917 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition as chaplain on the Ross Sea party, who were tasked with laying a chain of depots across the Ross Ice Shelf towards the Beardmore Glacier for Shackleton's intended crossing party.