A simple zoom into the Gigapan Mars image provided an unreal close-up of martian terrain for this author. (Click to enlarge.)
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When Curiosity touched down on Mars earlier this month, we Earthlings experienced an out of this world multimedia experience showing off amazing angles of the Red Planet. A few days ago, NASA released perhaps the best Mars panorama yet, which simply blows away the rest, at least in terms of size.
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The 360-degree color mosaic, hosted on Gigapan, includes more than 140 images stitched together for a supersize 0.21-gigapixel image from the surface of Mars. The sheer size of the image -- at an astounding 29,000x7,000 pixels -- gives onlookers the ability to zoom around and see some extreme detail on the barren red world.
As a social bonus, viewers can capture scenes from the panorama and... [Read more]
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