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4-Billion-Pixel Panorama View From Curiosity Rover 101

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday March 28, 2013 @07:59PM from the take-a-look dept.

A reader points out that there is a great new panorama made from shots from the Curiosity Rover. "Sweep your gaze around Gale Crater on Mars, where NASA's Curiosity rover is currently exploring, with this 4-billion-pixel panorama stitched together from 295 images. ...The entire image stretches 90,000 by 45,000 pixels and uses pictures taken by the rover's two MastCams. The best way to enjoy it is to go into fullscreen mode and slowly soak up the scenery — from the distant high edges of the crater to the enormous and looming Mount Sharp, the rover's eventual destination."

Comment Re:Some do (Score 1) 145

by Dondoet on Tuesday April 03, 2012 @10:01AM (#39559463) Attached to: UK Proposing Real-Time Monitoring of All Communications

I would like David Davis, but he's apparently a climate change skeptic.

Comment Re:Who still pays for antivirus? (Score -1, Flamebait) 391

by Dondoet on Thursday January 12, 2012 @09:06AM (#38672618) Attached to: Symantec Sued For Running Fake "Scareware" Scans

Oh look, another pro-MS post from our good friend DCTech. Nothing to see here, move along now...

Comment Cheese (Score 2) 68

by Dondoet on Friday November 18, 2011 @09:10AM (#38097030) Attached to: High Resolution Global Topographic Map of Moon

This only reinforces my suspicion that the moon is indeed made of cheese.

Comment Do Not Track (Score 0) 93

by Dondoet on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @11:19PM (#38069784) Attached to: W3C Proposes Unified "Do Not Track" Privacy Standard

I for one, welcome our 'Do Not Track' privacy overlords.

Comment Re:They can block all they want (Score 4, Insightful) 231

by Dondoet on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @10:03AM (#37998554) Attached to: Film Studios Seeking Complete Block of Newzbin2 in the UK

That is assuming that it's families who are pirating films, which I don't really think is the case. Personally, I pirate films every now and then for the sake of ease. Going to the cinema is a large use of time (and money), which I'd prefer to spend on something at least marginally more productive. As you said, the prices at the cinema in the uk are quite ridiculous at the moment. I think a drop in prices would probably bring in more money than at the current state but probably wouldn't reduce piracy.

Comment Boring. (Score 2, Insightful) 206

by Dondoet on Monday November 07, 2011 @04:10AM (#37971174) Attached to: Cringely's Lost Jobs Interview: Coming To a Theater Near You

All this news about Steve Jobs is getting rather boring and repetitive.

Comment Excuse my pedantry. (Score 1) 308

by Dondoet on Wednesday October 26, 2011 @08:56AM (#37842894) Attached to: Fukushima's Fallout Worse Than Thought

But it's Caesium, not Cesium.

Comment Re:Sad to see another country cutting its own thro (Score 1) 291

by Dondoet on Sunday October 23, 2011 @12:54PM (#37810240) Attached to: UK Government Pushing For 'Trusted Computing'

Europe is not a country.

Submission + - UK Goverment pushing for 'Trusted Computing' (guardian.co.uk)

Submitted by Motor on Sunday October 23, 2011 @06:47AM

Motor writes: As has long been expected — we are now beginning to see governments pushing for the use of so-called 'trusted computing'. Chips installed in all computers that effectively remove control of the PC from its owner. While there may be security advantages to some of the ideas — few can doubt that it represents a fundamental shift in the IT world. A radical move away from an open technology landscape and towards a system that denies all access unless you have the right credentials. Governments will demand the right credentials to access their services — meaning approved software stacks (i.e Windows) with the right digital signatures. Vernor Vinge had it right .

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