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Mars has captured our imaginations for decades now. Sending rovers roaming across the fourth planet from the sun has only allowed our imagination’s to roam wild with wonder. Even though we are able to see the planet now, it is still as mysterious as ever.
The new images that NASA has been receiving from the rover will only add to that wonder. NASA’s Curiosity rover has sent back a 1.8-billion pixel image of the Martian landscape. It’s the highest-resolution panorama of the Mars surface to date, and it’s pretty freaking awesome!
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The panoramic image was composed of over 1,000 high definition photos. The images were taken while the NASA team was out during the Thanksgiving holiday back in 2019, but the images were only recently released to the public.
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NASA said in an announcement. “Sitting still with few tasks to do while awaiting the team to return and provide its next commands, the rover had a rare chance to image its surroundings from the same vantage point several days in a row.”
The image shows Glen Torridon, a part of Mount Sharp that Curiosity is looking into. That image took more than six-and-a-half hours over four days to get the image. To get the lighting right, Curiosity only took photos from noon to 2pm daily.