Billion-Pixel View of Mars Comes From Curiosity Rover, NASA JPL
“A billion-pixel view from the surface of Mars, from NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity, offers armchair explorers a way to examine one part of the Red Planet in great detail.
The first NASA-produced view from the surface of Mars larger than one billion pixels stitches together nearly 900 exposures taken by cameras onboard Curiosity and shows details of the landscape along the rover’s route.”
Marc’s update: It seems folks at JSC can’t access NASA’s own the Billion-Pixel View of Mars web page due to an automated program which has deemed the page “non-job related” viewing and is blocking access to. Now there’s an algorithm that needs updating.

Marc Boucher is an entrepreneur, writer, editor, podcaster and publisher who has worked in space media for more than 25 years. In 1999 he co-founded SpaceRef with Keith Cowing. The new media company grew into a network that included NASA Watch and The Astrobiology Web. After selling SpaceRef, he joined Multiverse Media, which later merged with SpaceNews. There he helped steer the combined company toward more multimedia, a subscription paywall and intelligence products, and pushed for a mobile app. He is also the founder of SpaceQ Media, Canada’s space news and market intelligence publication.

Marc started his first Internet content business in 1992 and hasn’t looked back. When he’s not working, he loves exploring Canada and the world and expanding his photography skills.

One reply on “Billion-Pixel View of Mars”

  1. After pouring over the “raw” images, I can say you would be able to do little public science the resolution available, I zoom in and I expect with the sharpness I see to be able to zoom in more but the last zoom gives you a slightly fuzzy image, and it’s not the fuzzy pixelation that you get when you zoom in on a digital image.

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