[X] My Assistant

[Stu]

Really appreciate the positive comments on my imaging efforts, however I don't want to clutter other, more specifically scientific topics with my "artistic impressions" of Mars... but I enjoy making them, and I know others do too (Ant, dilo, Nix etc), so can I suggest this separate topic for posting them in? Kind of a gallery?

Just to get the ball rolling, two of my new ones...

"Victoria Dawn"



and "We Will Follow..."

[Stu]

By Phobos, you are on to something Stu! But then the pyramids must be buried round here somewhere ...

No conspiracy theory, just thought it was a cute coincidence. Time and time again space artists of the past are proven to have been "ahead of their time" in depicting planetary landscapes, that's all I'm saying.

Of course, ol' Ches was a bit out with his achingly blue sky and mats of green lichen on the edge of the landing site, but at the time such aspects of the landscape were thought to be almost 100% guaranteed. We can laugh at them now of course, with 20/20 hindsight, but give it 20 years and our modern day artists impressions of extra-solar planets will seem equally cringe-worthy and quaint, I'm sure...

Of course we now know the sky is more like this...



... but isn't there a part of us all that wishes it was that beautiful, wonderfully-naive and innocent pre-Viking blue? I often wonder how the history of Mars exploration would have changed if Bonestell's visions of Mars had proved to be true... but that's being covered in a different thread.