WOW! 4 BILLION Pixel Interactive Panoramic Picture of Mars

taken from the Mars Rover Curiosity.  The is too cool - a 4 Billion Pixel taken from over 400 pictures from the Mars Rover Curiosity.


Mars Gigapixel Panorama - Curiosity rover: Martian solar days 136-149 in The World

Amazing FOUR BILLION-PIXEL interactive panorama gives you a 360-degree view of Mars as if standing next to the Curiosity rover. Photographer Andrew Bodrov used 407 pictures from two Curiosity cameras to make the interactive imageEver wondered what it would be like to gaze across the surface of Mars? Thanks to one photographer, you can - with only a click of the mouse.
Andrew Bodrov spent two weeks creating the interactive image using 407 pictures from the narrow angle and medium angle cameras on the head of Nasa's Curiosity rover and a bit of digital retouching.
'[The camera] is only two megapixels, which by today's standards is not huge,' he told Popular Science. 'Of course, flying these electronic components from Earth to Mars, and having them survive the radiation and other hazards, means that they were not able to just use off-the-shelf cameras.'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2301619/Amazing-FOUR-BILLION-PIXEL-interactive-panorama-gives-360-degree-view-Mars-standing-Curiosity-rover.html#ixzz2P58flIu1