This panorama of the Martian surface will leave you star-struck.
這張火星表面的全景圖會讓你大吃一驚。
NASA released the largest and highest-resolution panorama the Curiosity rover has ever taken on Tuesday, and, at close to 1.8 billion pixels, it gives a hyper-realistic look at Mars. Composed of more than 1,000 images taken over the course of four days (between Nov. 24 and Dec. 1, 2019) — and assembled over subsequent months — the photo shows a region of Mars called “Glen Torridon,” according to a press release.
美國宇航局週二公佈了“好奇”號火星車所拍攝的最大、分辨率最高的全景圖，該圖以接近18億像素的像素高度逼真地展現了火星。據一份新聞稿稱，這張照片由4天(2019年11月24日至12月1日)拍攝的1000多張照片組成，隨後幾個月進行了拼接，顯示了火星上一個叫做“格倫·托里登”的區域。
NASA Curiosity project scientist Ashwin Vasavada offers further insight into the image in a NASA-produced video, which has already racked up more than 530,000 views on YouTube. “Panoramas like this are like a window to another world,” says Vasavada, encouraging those interested to explore the image further in a 360-degree video.
美國宇航局好奇號項目科學家阿什溫·瓦薩瓦達(Ashwin Vasavada)，在一段由美國宇航局製作的視頻中對這幅圖像提供了進一步的瞭解，該視頻在YouTube上的瀏覽量已經超過53萬次。瓦薩瓦達說：“這樣的全景圖就像一扇通向另一個世界的窗戶。”他鼓勵那些有興趣在360度全景圖中進一步探索的人。
“While many on our team were at home enjoying turkey, Curiosity produced this feast for the eyes,” says Vasavada of the rover’s Thanksgiving photoshoot on the red planet. “This is the first time during the mission we’ve dedicated our operations to a stereo 360-degree panorama.”
“當我們團隊中的許多人在家裡享受火雞時，好奇號創造了這場視覺盛宴，”瓦薩瓦達在這顆紅色星球上拍攝的“漫遊者”感恩節照片中說。“這是執行任務期間，我們第一次將行動用於立體360度全景。”
The Curiosity rover, which has been on Mars for seven years, previously produced a 1.3 billion-pixel panorama in 2013.
“好奇”號探測器已經在火星上運行了7年，此前在2013年製作了13億像素的全景圖。
The photo, below, is interactive, and its high quality allows viewers to zoom in on distant aspects — including the rim of the crater the rover is inside of. Billions of years ago, the crater wasn’t a barren terrain but a lush landscape of lakes and streams, a fact scientists know from analysis of the area’s rock.
下面這張照片是交互式的，高質量像素可以讓觀眾放大遠處的景物，包括火星車所在的隕石坑邊緣。數十億年前，火山口並不是一個貧瘠的地形，而是一個由湖泊和溪流組成的鬱鬱蔥蔥的景觀，科學家通過對該地區岩石的分析得知這一事實。
The image’s 360-degree perspective warps the image, NASA notes, giving it a fisheye lens-like perspective.
美國航天局指出，這張照片的360度透視圖扭曲了圖像，讓它具有魚眼鏡頭般的透視效果。
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