GeoGuessr in Space
I've spent too much time in my life playing GeoGuessr, trying to work out where in the world I am from little more than a road sign, a distant mountain or the architecture of a nearby building. But what if you took away the roads, the signs and pretty much everything else that makes Earth recognisable? What if, instead, you had to work out where you were somewhere in the Solar System? That's the idea behind SpaceGuesser , a planetary guessing game that takes the familiar GeoGuessr formula and launches it into space. The premise is simple. You're dropped into a panorama somewhere in the Solar System and have to work out where you are. Rather than exploring a Google Street View image, you're looking around landscapes captured on other planets and moons, or examining orbital imagery collected by spacecraft during planetary missions. Around half of the rounds feature ground-level panoramas, drawn from a collection of more than 14,000 images. Many of these were captured by ...
