What’s the most impressive thing you can do with your photographs? Other than printing your photos on canvas – of course! Now you can send them into space.

Yes, you read that correctly. A new firm has launched a bizarre service offering to send your snaps 70 miles into the atmosphere – that’s 8 miles more than is considered space.

Photos To Space are charging $4.95 to include each of your images on a flight which will take place in April 2011 and launch from Spaceport America, a commercial space landing field in New Mexico.

At that point your digital photographs could embark on a 15 minute flight which will see them soar to 70 miles high in around four minutes before returning to Earth.

Bosses of the firm say they “want to encourage people to become excited about the possibilities that are before us for the future of space travel” and give them something unique to do with their photography.

Anyone who pays to see one of their photos launched into space also gets a flight certificate with their photo embedded onto it, stats about the mission and a downloadable video of the rocket flight.

An amazing 360-degree photo of London has become the largest spherical panoramic photo after a photographer stitched together 7,886 high-resolution images.

In total the resulting image by Jeffrey Martin is 80 gigapixel — so big that it would measure 35m long and 17m tall if printed at a normal photographic resolution.

Martin captured the 7,886 photographs during a three day stint at the top of the 36 floor high Centre Point building at the crossroads of Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road.

He used a DSLR camera with a 400mm lens, which is why people logging onto 360cities.net and zoom in and out on details and clearly see individuals going about their daily business.

The photographer says a powerful Fujitsu CELSIUS workstation was required to combine the images and featured a dual 6-core CPUs, 192GB of RAM, and a 4GB graphics card.

We would love to be able to offer canvas prints of this image so we’re going to contact Jeffrey to see if he would be willing!

Images by Jeffrey Martin, www.360cities.net