Mars Panorama and Virtual Tour
This is a medium-resolution version of the
first 360-degree panoramic view of the Martian surface, taken on Mars by
the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit's panoramic camera. The image was
downloaded from the NASA site as a 13 meg JPG file. The resolution is
11,174 x 1,385 (big!). The movie window below is 400 x 400.
The Flash movie was created with
ImageMatics PE and is only 513K. The movie created by PE is 1/25th
the file size of the original still image. No cropping or scaling where
required to use it in PE. |