4-Billion-Pixel Panorama View From Curiosity Rover

A reader 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."

Re:it sure would be nice to get a PNG..

[CastrTroy]

Here's one I found [nasa.gov] within 1 minute of searching on Google.

Re:it sure would be nice to get a PNG..

[Anonymous Coward]

Uuum, he *already* has released it as image files. Or what do you think the SWF requests from the server?

Just use Firebug's network tab, to look at the requests, and make a wget command out of it. You're not a Internet child anymore, are you?

Re:it sure would be nice to get a PNG..

[Spikeles]

Not the exact same picture, but here one with a 88mb TIFF [nasa.gov]. Here's another with an 88mb TIFF [nasa.gov], and here is a whole lot more [nasa.gov] for your desktop pleasure.

Re:it sure would be nice to get a PNG..

[stereopticon]

I hate to be the one to tell you this, but that's not the same panorama. Heck, it's not even the same part of Mars. It's from the older robot, you can see the solar panels at the bottom. Curiosity doesn't have solar panels. Looking at the EXIF meta data embedded in that file, it's from 2005.

Wow, the rover!

[m.alessandrini]

Am I the only one looking amazed at the rover and ignoring the landscape? It's like my child's robot dreams starting slowly to come true.