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Mars Cameras Make Panoramic Photography a Snap
A real-world story of NASA technology finding a life beyond the mission.
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Overview
The Mars rover Panoramic Mast Assemblies inspired scientists at Ames Research Center and Carnegie Mellon University to find more down-to-Earth" photographic and virtual exploration applications for consumers. With the Austin, Texas-based Charmed Labs LLC, scientists created a prototype for the Gigapan robotic platform for consumer cameras, which automates the creation of highly detailed digital panoramas. The scientists also created a Web site and photographic stitching software to accompany the Gigapan platform, http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~globalconn/.