NAsa has released the first official images captured by its Curiosity rover showing the surface of Mars in crystal clear detail.
The panorama is made up of one billion pixels stitched together from nearly 900 exposures taken by cameras onboard Curiosity.
The full-circle scene surrounds the site where Curiosity collected its first scoops of dusty sand at a windblown patch called 'Rocknest,' and extends to Mount Sharp on the horizon.
'It gives a sense of place and really shows off the cameras' capabilities,' said Bob Deen of the Multi-Mission Image Processing Laboratory at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California.
'You can see the context and also zoom in to see very fine details.'
Deen assembled the image using 850 frames from the telephoto camera of Curiosity's Mast Camera instrument.
He then supplemented in 21 frames from the Mastcam's wider-angle camera and 25 black-and-white frames -- mostly of the rover itself -- from the Navigation Camera.
This image, taken of an area on Mars called Rock Nest, is a scaled-down version from the 360-degree panorama. Nearly 900 images were taken by cameras attached to Nasa's Curiosity Mars rover and stitched together
Andrew Bodrov's panorama uses 407 pictures from the Mars Curiosity rover's cameras
The £2billion six-wheel rover, right, is analysing rock powder found on Mars which has been shown to contain all the necessary elements for life
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