If printed out, it would be large enough to cover the entire Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena, California.
— pictured above — is by far the most high-resolution map of the Red Planet to date. NASA points out in its post that the new map comprises 5.7 trillion pixels . By comparison, the Viking Orbiter MDIM 2.1 is made up of approximately 10 million pixels.
This means that if the new map were printed out in full size, it would be large enough to cover the entire Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena, California. The Rose Bowl Stadium is one of the 20 largest stadiums in the world, with a seating capacity of more than 90,000.Unsurprisingly, the map took a great deal of time to complete. The Caltech's Bruce Murray Laboratory for Planetary Visualization team said it took tens of thousands of hours to compile over six years.
Though the beta version of the map has already been used in more than 120 peer-reviewed scientific papers, the scientists behind the mosaic aimed to make something easy to use."I wanted something that would be accessible to everyone," explained Jay Dickson, the image processing scientist who led the project and manages the Murray Lab. "Schoolchildren can use this now. My mother, who just turned 78, can use this now.
The scientists behind the Global CTX Mosaic of Mars used an algorithm to help them match images based on features and weather conditions on the Red Planet. However, they also had to stitch together 13,000 images manually that the algorithm couldn't match. Laura Kerber, a Mars scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who wasn't directly involved in the Mars mosaic project, said, "I've wanted something like this for a long time. It's both a beautiful product of art and also useful for science."
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