Thursday, June 20, 2013

Now There's a Picture of Mars with Over a Billion Pixels

Because science can't be stopped, NASA has compiled a picture of the surface of mars with over a billion pixels, 1.3 billion to be exact. The photo you see on the right is a much smaller crop of said photo.

This is the first photo from the surface with over one billion pixels, and its made from about 850 exposures from Curiosity stitched together.
The first NASA-produced view from the surface of Mars larger than one billion pixels stitches together nearly 900 exposures taken by cameras onboard Curiosity and shows details of the landscape along the rover's route.

The 1.3-billion-pixel image is available for perusal with pan and zoom tools here, and a scaled down, but still huge version (~159MB) is available for direct download here.

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