Four billion pixel interactive panorama gives a 360-degree view of Mars

Ever wondered what it would be like to gaze across the surface of Mars? Thanks to one photographer, you can - with only a click of the mouse, The Daily Mail reports.

Andrew Bodrov spent two weeks creating the interactive image using 407 pictures from the narrow angle and medium angle cameras on the head of Nasa's Curiosity rover and a bit of digital retouching.

'[The camera] is only two megapixels, which by today's standards is not huge,' he told Popular Science.

'Of course, flying these electronic components from Earth to Mars, and having them survive the radiation and other hazards, means that they were not able to just use off-the-shelf cameras.'

Bodrov added the sky and a previous picture of Curiosity to the 90,000 x 45,000 pixel panorama with Photoshop.