Highest resolution pictures till date.

Conventional digital photograph (panorama)

The following are the digital photographs that have held the record for being the largest in terms of pixel count, beginning with the largest in chronological order (note: large digital images out of chronological order or lacking milestone significance are moved to acknowledgment section).

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Moon surface 681 gigapixels (2010-2013)

•             Photograph of: Moon's Northern polar region

•             taken from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera

•             Year: taken over four years, from 2010 through 2013, published 2014

•             composed from 10,581 images

Link : http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/images/gigapan

London 320 gigapixels (February 2013)

•             Photograph of: London

•             taken from the BT Tower

•             Year: photographed in 2012; published in February 2013

•             composed from 48,640 images

•             captured over three days with four cameras on motorized mounts

Link : http://360gigapixels.com/london-320-gigapixel-panorama/#0.00,0.00,90.0

Electron Micrograph of a Zebrafish Embryo 281 Gigapixels (August 2012)

•             Name of project/picture: Zebrafish Embryo 281 Gigapixels

•             Claimed by: Frank G.A. Faas, et al.

•             Photograph of: Zebrafish embryo

•             Total images: 26,434

•             Dimensions: 921,600px (W) × 380,928px (H). Each pixel represents 1.6 nm

•             Pixels: 351,063,244,800

•             Year: public availability: August 6, 2012

Link : http://v.jcb-dataviewer.glencoesoftware.com/webclient/img_detail/201/

Shanghai 272 Gigapixels (December 2010)

•             Name of project/picture: Shanghai Skyline - Stitched From 12,000 Pictures

•             Claimed by: Alfred Zhao

•             Photograph of: Shanghai

•             Pixels: 272,312,102,608

•             Estimated optical pixels: 112 Gigapixels

•             Dimensions: 887276 (w) x 306908 (h)

•             Total images: 12000 (150 columns and 80 rows)

•             Size: 1,089,248,410,452 bytes (1.09 TB)

•             Year: shooting: May 25, 2010 / public availability: December 17, 2010

Link : http://gigapan.org/gigapans/66626

Sevilla 111 Gigapixels (December 2010)

•             Name of project/picture: Sevilla - 111 Gigapixels

•             Claimed by: Jose Manuel Domínguez Pablo Pompa

•             Photograph of: Seville

•             Pixels: 111,173,273,248

•             Total images: 9750

•             Year: shooting: September 29, 2010 / public availability: December 12, 2010

Link : http://www.sevilla111.com/