The panorama is stitched together from 132 individual images taken on April 15, 2021, the 3,090th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover took this 360-degree panorama while atop “Mont Mercou,” a rock formation that offered a view into Gale Crater below. “It also contains fun surprises, for example how the US used to be split by a shallow sea, the Appalachains used to be very tall mountains comparable to the Himalayas, and that Florida used to be submerged.360° View: Use the arrows in the top left, or click (or touch) and drag your cursor or mouse, to move the view up/down and right/left. “It is meant to spark fascination and hopefully respect for the scientists that work every day to better understand our world and its past,” he said. The map illustrates complex and interesting scientific data in an interactive and easy-to-use way so teachers, professors, and anyone else interested in the history and science of Earth can learn, Webster said.
The map will even show users what dinosaurs used to live nearby in the area they search. When searching a location on the map, the website’s 3D rotatable globe will point out where on Earth that area was located million of years ago. “I built the interactive globe visualization and the geocoding and GPates integration myself so that people could plug in their own locations.” “My software ‘geocodes’ the user’s location and then uses (Scotese’s) models to run their location backwards in time,” Webster said. NYC on the Pangea supercontinent 240 million years ago.
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