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this is the largest and highest

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resolution panorama the Curiosity rover

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has ever taken it's made up of almost

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1200 individual images taken over four

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days the rover's body is too close for

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the mass Cam's telephoto lens but we

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were able to capture the rover using the

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other mastcam lens the higher resolution

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version is nearly 1.8 billion pixels

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[Music]

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what I love about this panorama is that

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we can zoom way in and see details far

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in the distance when you start to do

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that you can see the rim of the crater

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we're inside out all the way to the

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north here's an impressive sight 20

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miles away is slang post crater just

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inside Gale craters rim and to end

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slang post is three miles wide something

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huge must have struck here whenever I

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start to think that Mars looks familiar

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sights like this dramatic impact crater

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remind me that we're looking at a

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different planet

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curiosity is exploring a clay bearing

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region on the side of a mountain

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this ancient landscape was the site of

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lakes and streams billions of years ago

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they left their clues in the finely

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this crumbling cliff is the edge of the

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green hue pediment it's a vast sheet of

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rock draped over the side of a mountain

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it must have formed after the lakes

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disappeared and the mountain took its

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present shape did it once extend even

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farther out curiosity looks a bit like

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an abstract painting here that's because

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this is a 360-degree perspective the

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image is warped like looking through a

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fisheye lens you can make out some

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amazing details on the rover itself this

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is the shadow of curiosity's mast

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here's rad an instrument that detects

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radiation from the Sun and space thanks

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to rad we have a better idea of how to

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protect future astronauts on Mars why

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are their severed tubes and wires on the

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rover these tubes were part of the fluid

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cooling system that circulated

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throughout the spacecraft that flew the

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rover to Mars

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these wires were like an umbilical cord

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for data they were cut during landing in

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spite of all the dust our Sun Dial still

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tells us to explore trailing behind the

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rover you can see our tracks including

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where we climbed up a hill even after

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seven years on Mars curiosity is not

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done making tracks yet panoramas like

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this are like a window to another world