[X] My Assistant

[elakdawalla]

OK, so I have been given a late assignment to create a "Year in Pictures" feature for our site looking back at 2005, and I'm looking for some "homework help" . I did one of these last year (sadly it is not available on the new site, I will try to repost it ASAP) and included pictures from Wild-2, tons from Spirit and Opportunity and Cassini, Genesis embedded in the desert, that sort of thing. The idea is to showcase pictures that are beautiful, scientifically meaningful, or historically important, or all of the above. I thought I'd see if any of you might have any opinions about what I should include. I've already got a space reserved for at least one "amateur" pic, likely the Av Week cover. I can't include everything that's suggested here (my editor has final say) but this community collectively has a much broader viewpoint on the last year than just lil' old me and I'm sure you'll come up with good stuff I never would have thought of...

--Emily

[lyford]

I would nominate this shot of Hyperion

Dramatic, good balance of art and science, etc. Makes nice desktop wallpaper - which is why these missions are funded, right?

And I second most of Doug's

[JRehling]

I would nominate this shot of Hyperion

Dramatic, good balance of art and science, etc.  Makes nice desktop wallpaper - which is why these missions are funded, right?

I'd revise that to the *color* image of Hyperion. Ansel Adams and the now-rare Hollywood B&W film withstanding, color is what the public wants to see, since the midpoint of Wizard of Oz.

The thing that aggravates me about good desktop images is that the normal use of my computer obscures everything but the edges. Especially devastating to whole-object pictures with black boundaries!