Apollo 11: Google creates huge moonlight portrait larger than Central Park to honor epic mission
As part of its tribute to Apollo 11, Google is using moonlight to dramatically showcase Margaret Hamilton, a pioneer whose computational work helped make the historic mission possible.
The Mountain View, Calif. company built the massive tribute by positioning over 107,000 mirrors at the Ivanpah Solar Facility in the Mojave Desert to reflect the light of the Moon, not the sun, as the mirrors typically do.
The resulting 1.4-square-mile portrait of Hamilton, 82, is breathtaking and larger than New York City's Central Park. The mirrors were reverse-engineered by Googlers to reflect moonlight, and each mirror is about the size of a car.
Hamiton and her colleagues at the MIT Instrumentation Lab, now known as Draper Laboratory, developed the navigation and guidance systems for the Apollo spacecraft. She led the team that worked on code for the Apollo Guidance Computer, the flight's onboard software.
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