“spirit” Cover On Aviation Week: 14 November 2005, Rocky Martian High: Spirit Takes Summit Options

[vikingmars]

I just received AWST yesterday at home.
CONGRATULATIONS to Doug, Dilo, Nirgal and Mars loon... !
GREAT, GREAT work !

[paxdan]

Kudos all round. Great job guys.

[dilo]

Gonzz, your words are so nice, I absolutely agree!
(and thanks to all, again)

[mars loon]

What I love about these images is that little bit of artistic liberty that allows them to transcend reality while remaining true to it.

It's a bit like the National Geographic magazine photographer that while photographing nature will employ all kinds of lens filters and special films to capture a truly unique image. Is it completely true to reality, well, no, but is it a lie, again no, just enhanced reality, that little bit extra contrast and colour that elicits from us a powerful and resonant emotional response.

And while NASA, as a science agency, has the responsibility to provide us with the most accurate images they are able to based on the available data, you guys here are not under so heavy restraints, and while you too seek to see mars as it is, you present it to us not in dull matt paper but in super glossy superior grade magazine paper stock.

You're our very own National Geographic photographers on Mars, using your photographic mastery to enchant us with beautiful views from another world.

And while I whole heartedly thank NASA for allowing my daily Mars fix, I whole heartedly thank the forum members for making it (even more) amazing.

Gonzz/All

Thank you for the insightful commentary and the generous compliments which goes first and foremost to all on the NASA/JPL/Cornell Mars Exploration Rover Team

And thanks to Doug and the forum members for continuing inspiration and sound input

To address you excellent point, please read this excerpt from p. 50 of Craig’s cover package for Aviation Week and Space Technology which includes a quote from Doug

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Reprinted by permission of Aviation Week and Space Technology /Craig Covault

14 Nov 2005

"Among the images taken at the summit is a stunning mosaic of monochromatic rover Navcam images, colorized by outside analysts using JPL/Cornell Pancam Imagery (see www. aviationnow.com). This melding of Navcam and Pancam data is artistically stunning, while not fully scientifically calibrated, says Doug Ellison of Leicester, England, who helped lead the work. It reveals Spirit, amazingly free of dust, sitting atop the rounded crest of the mountain, with views down the slopes to the Gusev crater floor below (see cover and pp. 48-49).

In the picture, rover tracks "jog" by the dark Hillary outcrop that Spirit first passed, then revisited. It was then driven up the slope under the outcrop so instruments on the rover's arm could reach the windblown, dust-free side of the feature. Spirit is now heading down the back side of the range after traveling for most of two years and more than 3 mi. across the floor of Gusev to reach the hills".
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[Gonzz]

Artistically stunning indeed!

If one thinks of art as a fusion between image and emotion I think that's what we sense from these images, the way we would feel if we were actually standing there, and the way that emotion would influence the way we perceived the view ahead.

Or in other words, I'm not sure if that image portrays what I would see if I was standing there, but I think it portrays the way I would remember it. Memories from Mars? Postcards

[Nirgal]

Hi Gonzz,

thank you so much for the appreciation of our work !

I simply lack the words to express how overwhelmed I am by your beautifully put words that so exactly to the point express all the feelings that have ever motivated my fascination and passion with space image processing ...

In german I would say "du sprichst mir aus der Seele" ... meaning "you speak just from my Soul"

[Gonzz]

[slinted]

Just noticed this spectacular image was featured on APOD!

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap051128.html

Congratulations to all involved!

[Enrique Bunbury]

The image is incredible.

GREAT WORK!!!

[mars loon]

The image is incredible.

GREAT WORK!!! 

Thank you. I submitted it to APOD for consideration and I guess they liked it

[Bob Shaw]

Congratulations to all on the APOD front!

Bob Shaw

[general]

Spirit-on-top-of-Husband-Hill-picture in leading Belgian newspaper "De Standaard" today:

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[djellison]

Wow - Is there any way you could get more copies of that? I'd be happy to pay for postage etc if you could get 3 copies sorted for me

Doug

[general]

I'll try to get more copies tomorrow (it's too late now) - but I'm not sure if they sell newspapers from the day before .
If not, you can have my copy.

[dilo]

WOW, general, thanks for the highlight!
I tried to look at the online edition (http://www.standaard.be/Nieuws/Wetenschap/) but no mention of the image