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4-Billion-Pixel Panorama View From Curiosity Rover

Posted by samzenpus on from the take-a-look dept.

SternisheFan points out that there is a great new panorama made from shots from the Curiosity Rover. "Sweep your gaze around Gale Crater on Mars, where NASA's Curiosity rover is currently exploring, with this 4-billion-pixel panorama stitched together from 295 images. ...The entire image stretches 90,000 by 45,000 pixels and uses pictures taken by the rover's two MastCams. The best way to enjoy it is to go into fullscreen mode and slowly soak up the scenery — from the distant high edges of the crater to the enormous and looming Mount Sharp, the rover's eventual destination."

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  1. it sure would be nice to get a PNG.. by wierd_w · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Flash player embeds are great and all, but I would rather have a good, high resoluton image that I can span over my multi monitor setup instead as my desktop image.

    You know, because I think its cool? I understand that the photographer worked hard to make it, and can release however he damnd well wants, but I would still like this in PNG format.

    1. Re:it sure would be nice to get a PNG.. by one+eyed+kangaroo · · Score: 5, Insightful

      True enough, but I'm just enjoying it for what it represents, a startling view of another planet.
      I am quite awestruck by this, and find that all the cynicism has drained out of me ;-)

  2. Sometimes science gives me a woody by gubon13 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm trying to understand the sheer awesomeness of the technologies necessary to get to this point where I can have some sense of what it's like to be on Mars, and it's a bit of a pant-tenter...

    1. Re:Sometimes science gives me a woody by rsmith-mac · · Score: 3, Insightful

      We really do live in the future. I'm looking at a panoramic, high definition landscape of another planet from my couch. How can you not get excited about it?!

      People spend all of this time bitching about all the things that are wrong in the world, and they only half-realize all the awesome things that go on such as this. We live in the future and I wouldn't have it any other way.

      P.S. Not all of us are male, you insensitive clod. Though the realization that I'm now wetter than Mars from looking at Mars has a certain tinge of irony to it

  3. Another use for Curiosity ? by Taco+Cowboy · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If Curiosity's wheels fall off and can't move anymore, there might be another use for Curiosity

    As long as the camera still functioning, as long as the power generation unit still functioning, and as long as Curiosity can still send messages back to earth, the rover can be used as a "telescope" stationed at Mars

    The air of Mars is clean, with no pollutants, and the sky is clear, VERY VERY CLEAR, out there

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  4. Re:Corrupt moderator will try to censor this... ap by MrKaos · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I only post where hosts file usage is on topic or appropriate for a solution & certainly NOT IN EVERY POST ON SLASHDOT (like the nutcase trying to "impersonate me" is doing for nearly all of March now, & 170++ times that I know of @ least)... apk

    Then stop posting as AC FFS.

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