
A stunning mosaic image recapturing the remarkable image of Buzz Aldrin on the surface of the moon taken by Neil Armstrong has been created to mark the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.

Developers Shoothill, a software specialist firm, created the mosaic from 8,000 images from all Apollo missions.

Some of the images were repeated and the total amount of images was 50,000, and they in turn formed a cell of the larger image.

In total it equates to a staggering one trillion pixels, which the firm claims could make it the biggest image ever made. Shoothill is waiting on verification from the Guinness book of records to confirm this.

The image, in its totality, can be viewed below or here.

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Shoothill engineers rendered the mosaic over several days and claim that if it was to be printed out on A4 with a conventional printer it would take two million pieces of paper weighing over 13 tonnes.

It would cost £20,000 in ink alone and be a process that would take two years.

When completed, it would cover a remarkable 31 acres.

This, along with the 'terapixel' statistic make it the biggest mosaic ever made, according to Shoothill.

A stunning mosaic image recapturing the remarkable image of Buzz Aldrin on the surface of the moon taken by Neil Armstrong has been created to mark the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing

Developers Shoothill, a software specialist firm based in Shrewsbury, created the mosaic from 8,000 images from all Apollo missions

Shoothill engineers rendered the mosaic over several days and claim that if it was to be printed out on A4 with a conventional printer it would take two million pieces of paper weighing over 13 tonnes

Rod Plummer, Managing Director at Shoothill, told MailOnline: 'I remember the moon landings from when I was a boy, and have seen the Saturn V rocket that took man to the moon and to me, it's still one of the greatest feats ever undertaken by mankind.

'So to try to honour all those that took part in the Apollo program we wanted to create something fitting with the massive scale of that effort.

'We call this technology 'Megafiche' because it's the exact opposite of 'Microfiche' he said 'with Microfiche, you basically looked at scaled-down reproductions of documents and photos on microfilm, but with Megafiche we can render a practically unlimited number of images and documents, to any scale, in perfect quality and all on one webpage'.

The main image created by the mosaic is one of the most iconic images ever taken from the Apollo missions

It would cost £20,000 in ink alone and be a process that would take two years. When completed, it would cover a remarkable 31 acres

In total it equates to a staggering one trillion pixels, which the firm claims could make it the biggest image ever made. Shoothill is waiting on verification from the Guinness book of records to confirm this

Jonathon Jones, a photography expert, penned an article for the Guardian in which he called the original image a work of art.

He wrote: 'Fifty years ago this week, a former navy pilot created one of the most revolutionary artistic masterpieces of the 20th century, one we have yet to fully assimilate.'

He went on to say what made the image so striking.

'Behind Aldrin, the moon's bright surface recedes to a blue horizon against the black void of space. Meanwhile, reflected and warped by the helmet, the other horizon stretches away behind Armstrong,' it reads.

'The photographer has incorporated the making of the image into the image, to tell the story of something new in the universe: two human beings looking at each other across the dusty surface of an alien world.'