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HUGE New Gale Crater Panoramas from Curiosity
The image above is a gorgeous view of the Curiosity rover’s surroundings in Gale Crater. However, it is just a sliver of an entire gigantic panorama put together by imaging wizard Stuart Atkinson. It’s made from 34 different images as Curiosity took in a full view of its environs. You can see the full panorama at Stu’s Gale Gazette website, where you can click on it to enlarge it, and as Stu says, “then take a good long look at the beautiful hills forming the rim of the crater. Just magnificent, aren’t they?”
Sure are. Stu told me via email that all this view is missing are “some sand ships hissing over the distant plain, glinting and flashing gold, sapphire and emerald in the sunlight, and a line of sword-swinging Tharks rushing towards the rover!”
Ah, I love Stu’s Barsoomian imagination…
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