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NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Releases 1.8 Billion-Pixel Panorama of Mars

The panorama, comprised of more than 1,000 snaps taken between noon and 2 pm (Mars time) during the Thanksgiving holidays in 2019, was created by the rover's Mast Camera, or Mastcam using its telephoto lens, NASA said.
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NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover has taken its highest-resolution panorama yet of Mars.

"The rover's Mastcam...relied on its medium-angle lens to produce a lower-resolution, nearly 650-million-pixel panorama that includes the rover's deck and robotic arm", NASA said on its official website.

The panorama captures "Glen Torridon", an area of Mars 5.5. kilometre-high (3.4-miles) that was named after Torridon in Scotland.

According to Ashwin Vasavada, Curiosity's project scientist, this was the first time the Curiosity rover mission has produced a stereo 360-degree panorama.

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