Inside the Large Hadron Collider: Google Street View now lets you tour the labyrinth of tunnels (photos)

Google has sent its Street View trike around the Large Hadron Collider and added it to the online service, the Daily Mail reported.

The search giant spent two weeks riding a special trike fitted with 360 degree cameras around the huge experiment to capture it.

Members of the public can now marvel at the sheer enormity of ATLAS as well as other giant machines at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) near Geneva.

‘We’re delighted that CERN opened its doors to Google Maps Street View allowing anyone, anywhere in the world to take a peek into its laboratories, control centers and its myriad underground tunnels housing cutting-edge experiments,’ said Pascale Milite of Google.
 

CERN is the world's largest particle physics laboratory where some of the world’s best physicists and engineers use advanced particle accelerators to help solve age old questions about the universe like what it's made of and how it started.

Google has already sent its trikes, cars and backpacks everywhere from the Antarctic to the Grand Canyon.

The search giant has said that the latest addition to Street View could even help scientists plan future experiments.



"Street View also lets scientists working on the experiments, who may be on the other side of the world, explore the equipment they're using."

The Google team were able to capture the main experiments running at CERN, the European particle physics laboratory based in the suburbs of Geneva.

"A team from Google, working with CERN personnel, took images across all of CERN’s sites using, among other things, a bike-mounted camera system known as the “Street View Trike”.
 

They also explored parts of the Large Hadron Collider tunnel and four experiments: ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb,’ said Dan Noyes of CERN.

Six-sided panoramic images were taken every three metres and four experiments were photographed, as well as 1200 metres of the LHC tunnel.

The entire project generated 6,000 points that were coordinated with GPS locations to create a virtual tour of the laboratory.

The project is ongoing and will expand and offer views of more of CERN experiments, Noyes said.