Plenty of tropical tourists carry GoPros to record their high-wire adventures as they fly through the rainforest on ziplines. Google, though, has something else in mind. The company sent its Street View cameras careening down ziplines in the Amazon to record three-dimensional views of the rainforest, which you can see here.

The 40-lb. Trekker camera has 5 lenses, and it can take photos every 2.5 seconds, BBC reports. Google has been using these cameras on boats to record the rainforest since 2010, but for this project it ran its own wires to get an aerial view of the Amazon.

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Source: BBC

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