Coffee Table Book, Thread Options

[djellison]

Right - I'm actually going to go ahead and try and get this thing made. I'm starting to make proper panoramas - a collection of probably a dozen for each rover - which will be submitted to the publishers as a portfolio and proof of concept.

However - for the best chance of being published - I need to know what people want - so.....ermm..whadda you want

I'm not going to do any 3d images. red-blue glasses just are NOT coffee table material - and as these rovers dont have Green+Blue in the right eye - it's not easy to make colour anaglyphs

But - I am going to do several mosaics - and a few individual images - but 99% pancam. Do you think I should use Navcam as well? What about Hazcam? What sort of text descriptor would you like for each image - perhaps a diary type format - or collate all the text at the back as a sol-by-sol account.

Do you want MOC images showing routes and image location and direction? etc.etc.etc.

Any and all ideas much appreciated - as they give me more idea of what will be acceptable when I come to present to a Publisher. I will initially be approaching Random House - whos inprint Jonathan Cape published 'Full Moon' here in the UK. If I have no luck there - I'll go to National Geogrpahic - who published a similar book called 'Orbit'.

I'll keep you all posted

Doug

[Bill Harris]

Good idea, Doug.

The coffee table book should be aimed at those who are interested in Mars and not those of us who have followed the Rovers since before Day One. You'll have to capture the former audience; the latter, you have assured sales.

I'd start with a brief history of imaging Mars: early 1800-1900's drawings, early Earth-based photography up to CCD imaging, Hubble imagery, then to spacecraft imaging-- Mariner through MOC and closing with landers-- Viking through Pathfinder. Give a description the MER hardware and then present the wonderful imagery produced by our Intrepid Heroes. You might want to include a brief description of the geology/geomorphology of the two areas to give the audience a background of how the things we see got there.

Good luck!

--Bill