I was wondering if the fantastic hivemind of UMSF might be able to help me out...
As part of the European Planetary Science Congress, which will be held at University College London in September, I am putting together what I hope will be a fairly unique image exhibition.
I have been given the go-ahead to print out a HiRISE image, measuring about 3 x 40 m, to run the length of an entire wall of one of UCL's main buildings. The exhibition will be up for about 3 months afterwards, and will be open to the public free of charge. The goal of this exhibition is simple – to showcase a beautiful image at an unprecedented scale. I hope that the image will challenge visitors to understand and explore the image at different distances, with some details only visible on a centimetre-scale, whereas larger vistas require a long look from far away.
So the image is to have interesting textures, colours, shapes, patterns, rather than just scientific merit.
In my application I used the awesome sand dunes and ripples with dust-devil tracks (small crop below and http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_014426_2070), and although it is probably still my favourite at the moment, it has 2x2 binning, and I would prefer to use 1x1 if possible.
My first impression of the image you posted is that it looks like a tattoo on a (well toned) female lower abdomen. This may be a plus for getting attention!
This is not a frivolous post. Things like that need to be taken into consideration before posting a huge mural in public.
I would be inclined to use one of the more spectacular landing site images - I won't suggest a specific one right now, I'll have to look, but good examples would be a strip running down the rim of Endeavour or - obviously - crossing Gale and including Yellowknife Bay and the mountain. Not only are they going to be geologically spectacular, but there's a whole extra level of human interest attached to the site itself. For both sites the tracks will be visible (assuming you choose recent images) and it will put into perspective the miniscule area we have explored as well as its context.
Phil
The ones with activity might be nice as well; this one with an avalanche, or some others with actual dust devils caught in the action.
http://www.uahirise.org/ESP_016228_2650
not "hiries" but the ctx cam
-- i reprocessed a part of "G01_018494_1930_XN_13N115W.IMG"
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/funosKLdC9D8BzlIomIqYdMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=directlink
for a "debunk" post over on
http://doubtfulnews.com/2013/07/what-is-this-elongate-thing-found-on-mars/
for a mass media posting of -- take a guess ...
Some of my favorites:
Many thanks for the suggestions and comments - all taken on board.
I'll add those images to my list of candidates, but if anyone else has any favourites from the ~30k HiRISE images then there's still time!
Thanks again for the help.
I tried to find *HIRISE's* oblique shots and sadly, they are a rare variety.
This reminded me of one famous shot:
http://www.astrosurf.com/merimages/Upload/PSP_008579_9020_descent-colorisationV2.jpg
Den - please re-read the first post of this thread. This was for EPSC - which is now over.
Yep, I'm afraid that it is too late for suggestions as it's up on the wall already!
It seems to have gone down well, with loads of people taking pictures as soon as it was up. Although, I'm not sure that all the planetary scientists at EPSC even noticed it was there
I saw this, https://twitter.com/sfjcody/status/378185955674312705, and can confirm that it is indeed awesome ! Go see it!
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