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About This GigaPan
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Ed Truthan
- Explore score
- 116
- Size
- 0.28 Gigapixels
- Views
- 11356
- Date added
- October 28, 2012
- Date taken
- October 24, 2012
- Categories
- Galleries
- Astrology and Space ...MARS
- Competitions
- Tags
- JPL, Gale Crater, MSL, Curiosity rover, mars, nasa, rocknest, panorama, mars science laboratory
- Description
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Here is the 360 degree view at "Rocknest" in Gale Crater, Mars, stitched together from 270 individual 1200x1200px frames shot between Sols 64 and 72 (October 10th to 24th, 2012) by by the Mastcam 100mm camera aboard NASA/JPL's Mars Science Laboratory rover "Curiosity". The Mars Science Laboratory Project and its Curiosity rover are almost three months into a two-year prime mission to investigate whether conditions may have been favorable for microbial life. For information about NASA's Curiosity mission, visit: www.jpl.nasa.gov/msl
, www.nasa.gov/mars
and mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl
Image credits: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS) / Ed Truthan

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mshellz2u (April 28, 2013, 01:55AM )
Any idea what the scale of these shots are? Looks like rover tracks on the left, and if that is the case, then most of the rocks are actually pebbles? Without a scale there is no way to know how big anything is, or is not? Thanks for sharing this awesome panorama!
impreprex (October 28, 2012, 09:15PM )
Ed! Thank you so much for doing this! The panorama is absolutely gigantic and magnificent. Much appreciation! - Impreprex from UMSF.com