The Curiosity rover of the NASA has taken its image of the Martian landscape with higher resolution so far, 1,800 million pixels and composed of about 1,200 photographs, which he took for four days and it took months to assemble to create a unique panorama. The image file, available for download on the site of the POT, in its full resolution it has a size of 2.2 Gigas.
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The images were taken between November 24 and December 1 of last year with the Mast camera of the rover, who used his telephoto lens to capture the panorama.
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He also made another landscape of less resolution, about 650 million pixels, in which the cover of the Curiosity and its robotic arm can also be seen, NASA said in a statement Wednesday.
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The two panoramas show “Glen Torridon” a region that is being explored by the rover, which was scheduled for this task during the Thanksgiving holiday how much he had “little work to do” waiting for the team on Earth to return from the days off to receive new orders.
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Curiosity took more than six and a half hours, spread over four days, to take all the individual images that would end up forming the landscape that was released on Wednesday.
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The operators of the Mast camera programmed “a complex list of tasks, which included pointing the rover mast and making sure that the images were focused, that they were taken every day between 12:00 and 14:00 hours on Mars, to ensure consistent lighting.
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“While many team members were at home enjoying the turkey, Curiosity made a feast for the eyes,” says Ashwin Vasavada, from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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Curiosity, which has been on Mars for seven years, has its own Twitter account to which a video was uploaded explaining that the “online” version of the image allows “zooming” to observe some of the more distant details.
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Among them, the Slangpos crater, which from one extreme to another measures 4.8 kilometers, and even the tracks that the rover has left on the Martian surface can be seen.
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