While the default viewer is Quicktime, if you don’t have that installed, click on the wrench in the upper right of the panorama page to select a different viewer. Also, windowed or full screen.
The picture was taken by the NASA robot “Spirit” over the course of 5 months. The “McMurdo panorama” is a combination of more than 1400 individual pictures which were taken when the lack of sunlight didn’t allow the rover to move during the Marsian winter.
For improved immersion, the interactive panoramic image has been contrast enhanced and the sky is an extrapolation from the narrow band of sky in the original pictures (so there is no sun, for example.) Based on images courtesy of NASA/JPL/Cornell.
Thanks, the panoramas are great!
That was absolutely awesome… like standing on the surface of Mars and looking around. Thanks for the link!
How cool is that! It looks just like my campsite in New Mexico this weekend.