Larger photo from NASA here, http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/673727main_PIA15980-full_...
The technology and brain power to achieve this picture, the landing, engineering and the science to come is so mind blowing to me that I almost feel drained!
Such a massive amount of awesomeness.
The HiRISE news release[1] now contains a (currently broken) link[2] to a 540MB non-map projected "descent long view." I imagine this is the complete scan that HiRISE took of the image, and that there is distortion due to the CCD layout in the satellite (hence non-map projected). But that's purely a guess.
They say:
Descent long view[2] (Note: this file is over 540MB. It is non-map projected
but rotated so that north is approximately up. This file is not annotated,
but MSL is in the mid-to-lower right-hand side. The CCDs do not match well at
their edges due to the unique image geometry; geometrically-corrected images
would be available in a few days.)
2: http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/images/2012/details/cut/ESP_02... (WARNING: 540MB TIFF, but link is broken at time of posting)
There is a seam just to the left of the package, which is why NASA presented the image with the object off-center, and why I cropped it that way as well.