NASA is celebrating. The Perseverance rover has passed 1,000 days of mission on the surface of Mars, an important achievement to which they have paid tribute by releasing an impressive image of the Lake Crater. According to the scientists said the crater could have harbored a huge lake in the past, which would make it one of the largest sources of water for our dry neighbor.

That photo of the Crater Lake on Mars is impressive because it is nothing more and nothing less than 2.38 billion pixels. To put this number in context, imagine that when we run a game at 4K, the total number of pixels on the screen is 8.29 million pixels. Yes, the difference is huge, the numbers don’t lie. As this is a huge image, I cannot embed it directly in this article, but you can view it by clicking this link.

As some of our readers may have guessed, this image has a trick and is actually a huge mosaic made by combining different images. A total of 993 images were used to create this “super image”. which allows us to rotate 360 ​​degrees and enjoy the surface of Mars in a way we would not have dared to dream of just a few years ago.

Mars is one of the most interesting planets in our solar system for many reasons. Among the most important we can highlight sits proximity and its similarities to Earthtwo keys that make it the best option in the future to undertake the first phase of space colonization, although this presents a number of problems, since it is not habitable in its current state, and therefore we will have to build a large amount of infrastructure.

In any case, despite all the challenges it brings, it is the only option that would really be within the reach of our current technology and science, because Venus is a veritable hell that crushes and burns everything that reaches its surface. Mercury is also a hell with temperatures capable of melting lead, although on the sides hidden from the Sun they can drop to 180 degrees.

If we dare to look further, we quickly realize that Pluto is too far away and the rest of the planets in the solar system are gas giants and ice giants. impossible to colonize. Mars will no doubt be humanity’s next home, although that is still many years away.