Mars 360: 1.2 billion pixel panorama of Mars - Sol 3060 (360video 8K)

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Published 2021-03-22
NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover Martian Solar Day 3060: The Vastness of Time

1.2 billion pixel panorama of Mars bit.ly/sol3060

NASA's Curiosity rover captured high-resolution panorama of the Martian surface between Sol 3057 (Mar. 12) and Sol 3062 (Mar. 17, 2019). A version without the rover contains 136 images from 34-millimeter Mast Camera; a version with the rover contains 260 images from 100-millimeter telephoto Mast Camera. Both versions are composed of more than 396 images that were carefully stitched.

Humans minds don’t easily comprehend the vast eons of time that separate us from the places we explore in space with robots like Curiosity. Our minds are designed to think in terms of hours, days, seasons, and years, extending up to a duration of our lifetime and perhaps those a few generations before us. When we explore Mars, we’re roving over rocks that formed billions of years ago and many of which have been exposed on the surface for at least tens or hundreds of millions of years. It’s a gap of time that we can understand numerically, but there’s no way to have an innate feel for the incredible ancientness of the planet and Gale Crater.

Today, Curiosity is continuing our drill campaign at Nontron and preparing SAM to study the sample later this week. While that’s ongoing, Mastcam will take a sure-to-be-spectacular 360° mosaic and ChemCam will study the Mont Mercou cliff in front of us (as seen in this Navcam image), including a target called “Font de Gaume.” Font de Gaume cave in France is home to stunning paleolithic cave art of bison, reindeer, and other Ice Age wildlife painted 19-27,000 years ago. Even that length of time, at least 15,000 years before the pyramids were built in Egypt, is barely 0.0005% of the time back to when Gale Crater formed on Mars.


Scott Guzewich
Atmospheric Scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center


NASA's Mars Exploration Program
Source images credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS
Stitching and retouching: Andrew Bodrov / 360pano.eu (bit.ly/sol3060)

Music in this video
Song: Gates Of Orion
Artist: Dreamstate Logic (www.dreamstatelogic.com/)

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All Comments (21)
  • @ChrischrosBelgium
    The sun looks so much smaller. I love seeing these images. It also makes me appreciate our beautiful planet so much more. I hope humanity finds a similar place elsewhere (comparable in beauty, and with surprising life forms...)
  • @nevwallace1523
    Anyone else wait for a video to start - then realise it's a still photo you need to move around with your mouse for the 360 view ?? lol
  • @Totano84
    What kind of messed up childhood have the 9 people who disliked this video gone through??
  • @Yeabro555
    To think that we live in a time where we are seeing first hand photos from another world is just amazing (I know this isn't the first time). I cant wait to see where we will be in the next few decades with everything NASA and SpaceX has planned
  • @adaml7964
    I'm curious why the rover itself is masked. That's not a camera occlusion zone. Some type of technology to hide from the public?
  • @Dream146
    This is wild, It'd be cool to see the Martian night sky at some point
  • @6string42
    If you look close enough, you can see a Dollar General in the distance.
  • @while.coyote
    Are there any night versions of these 360 panoramas? These are incredible! I feel like I'm right there exploring mars!
  • @paulz1948
    The music was a distraction----Does the rover have mics on board ? Is there any sound at all on the planet other than wind? That would be eerie . Can you get an echo ?
  • @ctrl8ic
    Poor Curiosity, with a "broken shoe", but doesn't give up!
  • @IgorSalazar1
    Tanta historia para terminar en Los Monegros. :)
  • @kmi203
    Cool sounding atmosphere too