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[Guest_AlexBlackwell_*]

Looks like it's that time of the year for the year-end-best-picture thingy, e.g., Cassini Photo Contest II and the December 18, 2006, issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology is the "Art and Photography Issue" for 2006.

And, of course, Saturn beat out the ivory-billed woodpecker for the cover of the December 2006 issue of National Geographic.

[Guest_AlexBlackwell_*]

...the December 18, 2006, issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology is the "Art and Photography Issue" for 2006.

Interestingly, the winners under the Art Space 1st Place through 3rd Place are in the exact reverse order of those listed under "Space" for the American Society of Aviation Artists Awards - Exhibit 2006; scroll down about halfway.

In other words, in AW&ST Norm Siegel's "Blue Sunset" was 3rd, Connolly's "Looking Back" was 2nd, and McCall's "Splashdown" was 1st.

[CosmicRocker]

Hehe...
Emily, are you overloaded? We have many more suggestions just waiting in the wings.

[Stu]

That "Blue Sunset" is beautiful... many happy memories looking at that...

[remcook]

some nice ones of the Mercury transit:

http://spaceweather.com/mercury/

edit:
The Cassini website has made some pre-selection:

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/poll/index.cfm

[Guest_Myran_*]

That backlit Saturn is a must!

But there need to be more than one from the Saturn system, I was inclined to suggest one radar image from Titan's lakes.

But people in general wants colourful images so the triplet image "Mapping Titan's Changes" found in the link remcook provided in the previous post are a very good choice.

Talking colourful are we? Well we have seen and discussed the Victoria crater colour image including the rover, yet that one also are a must.

And yes the Uranus spot and Venus polar vortex are good suggestions from you others - I second those.

And please have a look at this one, its recent yet I think its really amazing!

Space science involved humans also, and I might be biased, something from any of the spacewalks by Robert Curbeam and Christer Fuglesang. 4 spacewalks for Curbeam and 3 for Fugelsang in a single mission.
I feel one image from any of those spacewalks need to be in the set.

[elakdawalla]

Hehe...
Emily, are you overloaded? We have many more suggestions just waiting in the wings.

Not overloaded at all -- you guys are just producing a high-quality pool of stuff for me to pick from!

--Emily

[lyford]

Not sure what image would be appropriate, but the 100 AU crossing of Voyager 1 happened this year - another first for unmanned spaceflight. I would say that was a significant event....
Are you allowed to use "artist impressions?"

[ElkGroveDan]

So here's your chance to suggest your favorites. I can't include them all of course but with y'all's help I should be able to develop a diverse list, and maybe come up with a couple that will surprise people.

Here's a significant image from 2006, especially when we think of the year of the long and suspenseful trip along paths and between the dunes through most of last year.



taken from Paved Path for Opportunity

[Guest_AlexBlackwell_*]

Nature gets into the act in the December 21, 2006, issue. For those without access, the "space-related" images were: a Keck Observatory image of Eris; the now-iconic first HiRISE image of Opportunity; an image of Earth taken from ISS; an image of the March 29, 2006, solar eclipse taken from Libya; a NASA image of the ozone hole over Antarctica; and, believe it not, the Mars Express HRSC image of the "Face on Mars" taken in September.

EDIT: Oops. I forgot the link.

This post has been edited by AlexBlackwell: Dec 20 2006, 06:29 PM

[tuvas]

Nature gets into the act in the December 21, 2006, issue. For those without access, the "space-related" images were: a Keck Observatory image of Eris; the now-iconic first HiRISE image of Opportunity; an image of Earth taken from ISS; an image of the March 29, 2006, solar eclipse taken from Libya; a NASA image of the ozone hole over Antarctica; and, believe it not, the Mars Express HRSC image of the "Face on Mars" taken in September.

I can't imagine what'll happen when HiRISE takes a picture of the "face" (I wonder if we'll do a stereo...), it's bound to be interesting...

[lyford]

Emily has them up on the PS site now:

The Year in Pictures 2006

I think she did a great job making choices from a year chock full of UMSF goodness! I am happy that the string of pearls made the cut

[JTN]

OK, way too late, I know, but I'm slightly surprised that no-one mentioned the 'propellers' in Saturn's rings. Seems significant to ring/disc dynamics to me.