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Eye-Popping Interactive Panorama from the Curiosity Rover

Thursday, February 14, 2013 10:20

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Curiosity Rover’s Self Portrait at ‘John Klein’ Drilling Site, which combines dozens of exposures taken by the rover’s Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) during the 177th Martian day, or sol, of Curiosity’s work on Mars (Feb. 3, 2013). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

There’s an incredible new interactive panorama from the latest Curiosity rover’s self-portrait and surroundings at the “John Klein” drilling site. It was put together by photographer Andrew Bodrov and combines the recent self-portrait and other images to create a full 360-degree panorama created from hundreds of images. The mosaic stretches about 30,000 pixels width.

Click here to see (and go play with) the panorama.
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