{"id":2932,"date":"2013-06-20T21:58:08","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T21:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2932"},"modified":"2013-06-20T22:25:26","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T22:25:26","slug":"a-billion-pixel-view-of-curiositys-home-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2932","title":{"rendered":"A billion-pixel view of Curiosity’s home on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"

A very high-res 360 degree panorama of the landscape around the Curiosity Rover has been posted online: Interactive: Billion-Pixel View of Mars from Curiosity Rover<\/a><\/p>\n

And the main article here:<\/p>\n

Billion-Pixel View of Mars Comes From Curiosity Rover<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

PASADENA, Calif. — 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.<\/p>\n

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\"Curiosity<\/a><\/p>\n

Billion-Pixel View From Curiosity at Rocknest, White-Balanced<\/em><\/strong>
\n This full-circle view combined nearly 900 images taken
\nby NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover, generating a panorama
\nwith 1.3 billion pixels in the full-resolution version.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The 1.3-billion-pixel image is available for perusal with pan and zoom tools at: http:\/\/mars.nasa.gov\/bp1\/<\/a> .<\/p>\n

The full-circle scene surrounds the site where Curiosity collected its first scoops of dusty sand at a windblown patch called “Rocknest,” and extends to Mount Sharp on the horizon.<\/p>\n

“It gives a sense of place and really shows off the cameras’ capabilities,” said Bob Deen of the Multi-Mission Image Processing Laboratory at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. “You can see the context and also zoom in to see very fine details.”<\/p>\n

Deen assembled the product using 850 frames from the telephoto camera of Curiosity’s Mast Camera instrument, supplemented with 21 frames from the Mastcam’s wider-angle camera and 25 black-and-white frames — mostly of the rover itself — from the Navigation Camera. The images were taken on several different Mars days between Oct. 5 and Nov. 16, 2012. Raw single-frame images received from Curiosity are promptly posted on a public website at: http:\/\/mars.jpl.nasa.gov\/msl\/multimedia\/raw\/<\/a> . Mars fans worldwide have used those images to assemble mosaic views, including at least one gigapixel scene.<\/p>\n

The new mosaic from NASA shows illumination effects from variations in the time of day for pieces of the mosaic. It also shows variations in the clarity of the atmosphere due to variable dustiness during the month while the images were acquired.<\/p>\n

NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory project is using Curiosity and the rover’s 10 science instruments to investigate the environmental history within Gale Crater, a location where the project has found that conditions were long ago favorable for microbial life.<\/p>\n

Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, built and operates Curiosity’s Mastcam. JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the project for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington and built the Navigation Camera and the rover.<\/p>\n

More information about the mission is online at: http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/msl<\/a> and http:\/\/mars.jpl.nasa.gov\/msl\/<\/a> .<\/p>\n

You can follow the mission on Facebook and Twitter at: http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/marscuriosity<\/a> and http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/marscuriosity<\/a> .<\/p>\n

For more information about the Multi-Mission Image Processing Laboratory, see: http:\/\/www-mipl.jpl.nasa.gov\/mipex.html<\/a> .<\/p>\n

===<\/p>\n

See also Take a billion-pixel tour of Curiosity rover’s surroundings on Mars – Cosmic Log<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A very high-res 360 degree panorama of the landscape around the Curiosity Rover has been posted online: Interactive: Billion-Pixel View of Mars from Curiosity Rover And the main article here: Billion-Pixel View of Mars Comes From Curiosity Rover PASADENA, Calif. — A billion-pixel view from the surface of Mars, from NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity, offers … Continue reading A billion-pixel view of Curiosity’s home on Mars<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,36,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mars","category-multiple-media","category-space-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-Li","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1415,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1415","url_meta":{"origin":2932,"position":0},"title":"Four gigapixel panorama of Mars","author":"TopSpacer","date":"March 29, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Andrew Bodrov has created a super high-res panorama of Mars using a series of images from the Curiosity rover: 4-Billion-Pixel Panorama From Curiosity Rover Brings Mars to Your Computer Screen - Wired Science\/Wired.com Mars Gigapixel Panorama - Curiosity rover: Martian solar days 136-149 in The World","rel":"","context":"In "Multiple media"","block_context":{"text":"Multiple media","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=36"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":14631,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14631","url_meta":{"origin":2932,"position":1},"title":"Latest on the Mars rovers + Curiosity finds signs of a warm & wet Red Planet long ago","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 15, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Bob Zimmerman has posted one of his periodic updates on the explorations of the Curiosity and Opportunity rovers on Mars: \u00a0Mars rover update: July 12, 2017 | Behind The Black. 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