NASA stitched together hundreds of images from their Mars rover
Opportunity over several months, creating a stunning panorama
that makes the planet look just like it does in good sci-fi
movies: alien. And awesome. The space agency has a long history
of doing spectacular martian photo shoots. It was back in the
summer of 1976 when ABBA’s “Dancing Queen” was taking over all
the airwaves and the Son of Sam was just getting his career
started, that NASA landed a spacecraft on Mars and for the first
time ever, took photos from the surface. The Viking 1
immediately began beaming back images and here’s what their
vintage panorama looked like. (Image: NASA/JPL-
Caltech/Cornell/Arizona State University)