Mars’ Vivid Details Showcased in New Interactive Mosaic Utilizing NASA Imagery

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has provided data for a new global image of the Red Planet that can be accessed by both scientists and the public. The image, which was made at Caltech, is composed of 110,000 images taken by the spacecraft’s black-and-white Context Camera, covering nearly 270 square feet of surface per pixel. The Global CTX Mosaic of Mars is the highest-resolution global image of the planet ever created, and took six years and tens of thousands of hours to develop. The mosaic is so detailed that more than 120 peer-reviewed science papers have already cited a beta version.

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