Over a million people attended the inauguration of President Barack Obama in Washington last week. With extremely tight security restricting access, photographer David Bergman found an ingenious way to photograph the event, with the help of imaging technology used on the Mars Rover.
According to an article on his blog, Bergman clamped a Gigapan imager - a robotic camera used on the Mars Rover to photograph the Martian landscape- to the railing on the north media platform about six feet from his photo position. The camera enabled Bergman to take multiple images and stitch them together. The panoramic image of the event is contained in a file measuring 1.5 Gigapixels (59,783 X 24,658 pixels) in size.
The Gigapan technology was developed by researchers at Carnegie-Mellon University and NASA, under the Global Connection Project. More information on Gigapan can be found by clicking here .
To view the image of the inauguration, click here .
