Up close and personal (Image: Gene Cooper/Four Chambers Studio in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University/GigaPan.org. Specimen provided courtesy of John Rawlins, Carnegie Museum of Natural History)
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RANDY SARGENT remembers the first time he explored the surface of Mars. It was 2004, and he was working as a computer scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California. The space agency’s Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity had just landed on the planet’s surface, and each rover carried a panoramic camera system designed to take a series of photographs that could…
