NASA Curiosity rover breaks its own record with new 1.8-billion-pixel Mars panorama

On March 4, NASA shared the highest-resolution panoramic Mars image ever captured by its Curiosity rover. The panorama features 1.8 billion pixels and is comprised of more than 1,000 individual images captured by the rover over the Thanksgiving 2019 holiday break in the US. NASA explains that Curiosity captured two different panoramas using two different lenses: the record-breaking 1.8-billion-pixel panorama using the Mast Camera ('Mastcam') with a telephoto lens and a smaller 650-million-pixel ...