Wall-E wrote:
IT'S NOT A SINGLE SHOT!!!!!!!!
It's a stitched panorama, from 216 normal camera images.
The alleged description in the email floating around is the work of some tin-hatted conspiracy theorist.
Your reasoning is all wrong. Whether it is 1 photo, or 216 stitched together photos, the resolution is still amazing. Choose 1 of the 216 pictures from the "grid" then zoom in on it more than a dozen times. Even a 24MP camera today can't get 1/10th that resolution. Go ahead and take your best camera out and take a photo of someone a half mile away without zooming in on them. Now zoom in until your heart's content and see if you can get a recognizable face.