1,000 photographs,

1.8 billion pixels,

Mars as you have never seen it before, Curiosity Mars Rover, was busy taking more than 1,000 photographs of the Red Planet, capturing the Glen Torridon region on the side of Mount Sharp, the rover shot enough images to create a composite that totals 1.8 billion pixels and provides its most expansive view to date of Mars’ landscape,

NASA released the video above that points out the various landmarks and proves just how impressive the shot is, like the incredible detail that’s visible on a three-mile wide crater at least twenty miles away. The rover shot the panorama using a camera attached to its mast that has both telephoto and medium-angle lenses. In order to ensure lighting consistency, it only took images between 12 and 2 p.m. each day,you cab explore the panorama for yourself on NASA’s site, and no they, the photographs, did not reveal any little green men, or women.