Martian Landscape in Four Billion Pixels

By Alex Wild | March 29, 2013

It’s a massive image composited from several days of captures by the Mars Curiosity rover. The level of detail is astounding. You could spend days zooming around in there looking at martian rocks.

More - Link >>> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/compound-eye/2013/03/29/a-martian-landscape-in-four-billion-pixels/?WT_mc_id=SA_DD_20130329 

Mars Gigapixel Panorama - Curiosity Rover: Martian Solar Days 136-149 (Special Note: As this is a huge image file, it may take a couple minutes to load, depending on the download capacity of your computer and Internet provider):
Link >>> http://www.360cities.net/image/mars-gigapixel-panorama-curiosity-solar-days-136-149#44.90,-9.24,42.5 

Sources: NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory-California Institute of Technology, Scientific American Magazine.

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