This is a composite panorama of the Ubehebe Crater in the northern half of Death Valley.  It was taken while touring there in April of 2005.  The individual slices were taken using a Canon Powershot A520.  They were then subsequently stitched together using a variety of commercial (shareware) software packages.  Each image has been reduced in resolution from the original 150 dpi to 72 dpi.  In the original 150 dpi, the final composite produces a high quality printout 8in high by 20in wide.  The compressed final JPG below is 1.8MB in size.  The original 150 dpi TIFF file is 62MB in size.

The following is a from the respective Wikipedia article .

Ubehebe Crater is a large volcanic crater located at the north tip of the Cottonwood Mountains that is half a mile (one kilometer) wide, 500 to 777 feet (150 to 237 m) deep, and 4-7 thousand years old (Native American artifacts in the area indicate that 6000 years is the most likely age although estimates of 2000 years are common). "Ubehebe" (pronounced YOU-bee-HEE-bee) is a Native American word meaning "Big basket in the rock." The crater was formed when magma migrated close to the surface and the heat of the magma flashed groundwater into steam, throwing large quantities of pulverized old rock and new magma across the gravely alluvial fan draped across the valley floor. The magma rose through a fault that lies along the western base of Tin Mountain (movement on this fault was responsible for uplift of the entire Cottonwood mountain range).

  View Large Panorama (477KB):  Ubehebe Crater