Billion-Pixel View of Mars Snapped By Curiosity 32
astroengine writes "If you were in any doubt as to Curiosity's photography prowess, this panorama of Gale Crater should allay your concerns. In this billion-pixel photo from Mars, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory snapped nearly 900 separate images that were then stitched together to create a wonderful high-definition view from the robot's mast-mounted cameras. 'It gives a sense of place and really shows off the cameras' capabilities,' said Bob Deen of the Multi-Mission Image Processing Laboratory at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., who assembled the scene. 'You can see the context and also zoom in to see very fine details.'"
Re:Cool (Score:5, Funny)
Does anyone know if they are actually going to bring the rover up the mountain...?
Patience, grasshopper. With enough time, the mountain will come down to the rover.
Re:camera greatness?? I think not... (Score:5, Funny)
So please don't go thinking it's one picture taken by a camera that has a 1 giga pixel sensor on it.
Don't worry, anyone who got to the second sentence in the summary knows that.
So .... At least 30% of Slashdot?