Jan 27, 2009

Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja r alexander@nasa gov

MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-019

NASA-DERIVED TECHNOLOGY CAPTURES UNIQUE INAUGURAL IMAGE

WASHINGTON -- NASA spinoff technology from the Mars exploration rovers was used to capture a unique panoramic image of President Obama's inaugural address at the U S Capitol on Jan 20

A photographer at the inauguration, David Bergman, used the Gigapan camera system to generate an image from a press platform The resulting picture is a combination of 220 images with an overall size of 1,474 megapixels

The Gigapan system is a NASA spinoff technology that can capture thousands of digital images and weave them into a uniform high-resolution picture of more than a billion pixels The technology is the product of a two-year collaboration between NASA and Carnegie Mellon The Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity have used the Gigapan system to explore the Red Planet for more than five years

To read a 2008 Spinoff story about the Gigapan technology, visit:

http://www sti nasa gov/tto/Spinoff2008/ch_2 html

To see the inaugural image, visit:

http://www gigapan org/viewGigapan php?id=15374

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