Google's new Street View camera is more portable (and it looks kind of cute).

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Google Street View cars, which launched in five US cities in 2007, have circled the globe since 2007

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taking more than 10 million miles of pictures that have been stitched together to create a visual map of most of the world.

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Although these cameras have allowed Google to capture a lot of far-flung places, they tend to be bulky, heavy, and require a lot of computing power

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Google announced Tuesday a new Street View camera that it hopes will make it easier to snap pictures of the world

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especially in remote locations like islands and mountaintops. With a weight of 15 pounds

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the camera can be customized with different sensors like lidar as needed

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and it can be easily attached to a car's roof rack without having to modify the car

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It is equipped with seven cameras, each with a 20-megapixel sensor, so 140-megapixel panoramic images can be taken.

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