When we first saw the photographic results of a 4 gigapixel camera a couple of years ago, we nearly exploded.
Some clever clogs in the US had taken an ex-Cold War satellite and started snapping shots with it.
The amazing thing was the resolution – 4,000 pixels per inch. Yes, you read that right. See why we had such a strong reaction, eh?
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Physicist Graham Flint is working on an ultra-high-resolution portrait of America, creating a series of truly enormous gigapixel images taken with a camera made up of decommissioned Cold War hardware and Wired has discovered him (link below).