Ever Wonder What a Two Billion Pixel Camera Shot Looks Like? Check Out Curiosity's New Images of the Red Planet

Queue Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra, or for the uninformed, the epic drums and trumpets you see in any scene of significance.NASA's Curiosity Rover on Mars has given us some of the most incredible photos of the planet's surface, with a 2 billion pixel capture that was broken up over multiple images. 

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    Queue Dramatic Space Odyssey 2001 Music

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    Pan Over The Surface

    Panning over the Martian landscape and onto NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity
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    Zoom In Zoom Out

    Motor vehicle
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    Living On The Edge

    Sand
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    Is That a Crater?

    Sand
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    That's a Heck of a Butte

    Sand
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    Getting Right Up There

    Nature - Upper Mount Central Butte
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    What's That There?

    Rock
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    But Can it Detect Gamma Rays?

    Mars Curiosity Rover closeup on some of the instrumentation and tools onboard
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    Such Wires Very Tubes

    Vehicle
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