New Ginormous 4 Billion Pixel Panorama from the Curiosity Rover

By Nancy Atkinson - March 28, 2013 at 3:50 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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

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Photographer and panoramacist Andrew Bodrov has again taken advantage of that old shutterbug, the Curiosity rover, and the images she's taken of her surroundings. This huge new interactive panorama stretches across 90,000 x 45,000 pixels, and includes 295 images from the Narrow Angle Camera taken on Sols 136-149 and 112 images from Medium Angle Camera taken on Sol 137. Enjoy playing around and visiting Curiosity's 'hood. If you click the link below the pan, it will take you to the host website where the panorama spreads across your screen. Enjoy!

FYI, today is Sol 228 for Curiosity on Mars. Has it been that long already?

Bodrov is a photographer from Estonia who specializes in interactive panoramic photography. He did a

Curiosity pan in February

2013

another in August 2012

and he's also taken lots of images at the

Baikonur Cosmodrome.

Nancy Atkinson

Nancy Atkinson is a space journalist and author with a passion for telling the stories of people involved in space exploration and astronomy. She is currently retired from daily writing, but worked at Universe Today for 20 years as a writer and editor. She also contributed articles to The Planetary Society, Ad Astra (National Space Society), New Scientist and many other online outlets.

Her 2019 book, "Eight Years to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Missions,” shares the untold stories of engineers and scientists who worked behind the scenes to make the Apollo program so successful, despite the daunting odds against it. Her first book “Incredible Stories From Space: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Missions Changing Our View of the Cosmos” (2016) tells the stories of 37 scientists and engineers that work on several current NASA robotic missions to explore the solar system and beyond.

Nancy is also a NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador, and through this program, she has the opportunity to share her passion of space and astronomy with children and adults through presentations and programs. Nancy's personal website is nancyatkinson.com