365 Gigapixels: The highest resolution photo in the world is of Mont Blanc

You are facing a stunning landscape and, wanting to have the clearest possible memory of the moment, you take your camera to immortalize it. You take vertical, horizontal, and even sometimes get creative to try to perfectly capture the place you are seeing. But you look at the photo and say: "it doesn't do justice to how beautiful it is."

This premise is why the highest resolution image in the world has been created, so that from our homes we can admire the magnificence of some places without missing a single detail.

The largest photo in the world? It is of Mont Blanc, the highest mountain in the Alps, which has an official height of 4,807 meters above sea level, according to the latest data from September 29, 2021.

Creating this image required 35 hours of continuous shooting to capture the 70,000 photographs that make up the stunning panorama of this mountain. The resolution is such that the entire image weighs a staggering 46 terabytes, or in other words: 47,104 gigabytes.

The image, which can be viewed at in2white, if printed, could fill a football stadium entirely. It's no wonder considering it has 365 billion pixels, occupying 45,000 times more than what a photo taken with an iPhone X occupies.

This photograph was taken under the direction of Italian photographer Filippo Blengini using Canon 70D DSLR cameras with a Canon EF 400 mm f/2.8 II IS telephoto lens, along with a Canon Extender 2X III on a special robotic mount.

The conditions for taking these photographs were not easy either: the 70,000 images that make up the highest resolution panorama on the planet were taken at temperatures of 10 degrees below zero at an altitude of 3,500 meters.

It's not the only image of its kind. There are also others from cities like New York, with a photograph of 120 billion pixels, taken from the Empire State Building. An image that can zoom in and in, surprising us with impressive details of the streets, buildings, and monuments.

For space lovers, there are also doses of ultra-high-resolution images. Like that of the Moon, a photograph taken by photographer McCarthy who took over a million photographs of the moon's surface details and its texture, leaving us with an image that is a true marvel and that you can download here.