Thursday 20 June 2013

Curiosity's panorama of Mars is worth a billion pixels



On Wednesday, NASA unveiled a rather large postcard sent back from Mars by the Curiosity rover. It’s in the form a panoramic image packing more than one billion pixels that was stitched together from 896 images. NASA sees the gigapixel image as a way for “armchair explorers” to take a close-up look at the Red Planet by means of an interactive webpage. .. Continue Reading Curiosity's panorama of Mars is worth a billion pixels

Section: Space

Tags: Curiosity Rover, Image, JPL, Mars, Mars Science Laboratory, NASA, Panorama,Photo

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