Opportunity Rover provides HD Martian panorama
July 8, 2012by yaska77
NASA recently released a panoramic image of the Martian landscape, taken by its Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity while it was stationary for four months of work during its most recent Martian winter.
This full-circle scene combines 817 images taken by Opportunity’s panoramic camera (click to enlarge) Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/Arizona State Univ.
Compiled of 817 individual images at full resolution it is a sight to behold! The detail is astounding and about as close as any of us will ever come to experiencing “the red planet” first hand.
Click above to see a reduced size image (40% of the original) or the link below to download the full resolution monster (it’s a whopping 23096 x 7981 pixels!) and get more information direct from the NASA website.
Incredible image 
An amazing photo – despite the strange landscape you have to tell yourself that you’re not looking at somewhere on Earth because we’re just not used to seeing other planets from this angle!
You can almost feel the dust blowing around