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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