Stu! Wordsworth? I think more Tennysonian:

There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail:
There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners,
Souls that have toil’d, and wrought, and thought with me–
That ever with a frolic welcome took
The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed
Free hearts, free foreheads–you and I are old;
Old age hath yet his honour and his toil;
Death closes all: but something ere the end,
Some work of noble note, may yet be done,
Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.
The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks:
The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep
Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends,
’Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.
It may be that the gulfs will wash us down:
It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,
And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.
Tho’ much is taken, much abides; and tho’
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Is looks good. But the reason I asked is that so far as I know we don't seem to see the high martian ice clouds easily at low elevation angles like that. It's early days for the 'clouds' theme though (and one APOD already!)

Tinted? Looks more like Sellafield has caught fire (again).

Andy

Hmmmm... either the RAT can do a lot more than just grind rock, or in the 21st century "Mars Heritage" came up with a way to honour Oppy's exploration of Endurance...

Enough Stu, please!
You mentioned a few days ago that you were starting to learn Photoshop (IIRC) and a question, may be OT, occured to me : do you (or others) think that it's the best software for working on images? Is there any thread hidden in the forum that talk about this question?
Don't stop Stu, please!

Make up your mind!

re Image processing software. I can only speak from personal experience, but while Paint Shop Pro served me loyally for the past 5 years, and let me do what I wanted to do, after a couple of weeks with Photoshop Elements I'm like a dog in a lamp-post warehouse... just don't know which way to turn next! I'm finding Elements' colour changing tools, its cloning tools and layering abilities to be almost magical.

Other people here make the fantastic mosaics, colourisations and anaglyphs etc we all drool over... as for me, knowing I can't get anywhere near that level of expertise, I'm just messing about with slightly more artistic ideas and "visions" as the thread name suggests.

Hmmm...I didn't know that the MER team had gotten that good at controlling the RAT by the time they reached Endurance... must be all them video games they play!

Slightly OT, here, but when exactly do we come out of solar conjunction?

See over here

Thanks, James...missed that one.

Nov 10th? Yeowch...let's hope that the Sun is quiet sooner rather than later! (I know we're near solar min, but there've still been some pretty hefty magnetic disturbances & 10-cm radio events lately...)

A hot day at Gusev


OK - so I nicked the drawing from the net somewhere and placed them in Gusev.