4-Billion-Pixel Panorama View From Curiosity Rover

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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my first upvote: discussion thread on the new upvo

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Not having much success with the new feature: appears there is no thread on the new upvote feature.

So here's the thing. We can use this for good, or we can use this for evil.

Good: Voting up story submissions that don't end in woolly assertions soliciting a lather of unfocused submissions.

Good: Voting down story submissions that leave out critical bits of context as if everyone goes off to immediately RTFA.

Bad: Voting down perfectly geeky submissions because it's just not your particular kink.

Let's raise the editorial standards and not turn this into a popularity contest. If this degenerates into nothing but a popularity trinket, there won't be damn soul over the age of 30 who posts here ever again.