[X] My Assistant

[Tesheiner]

The Photo Poll on the MER mission web has a winner.
And the winner is ... Spirit's scene of the setting sun.



http://marsdata1.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/photoContest/index.cfm

[djellison]

Yup - the backdrop is a painting matching identically the first lookback images of Larrys Lookout - a view that was pointing North. The actual sunset image voted favorite was taken in a direction about 100 degrees to the left

I'm just a stickler for accuracy.

Doug

[mhoward]

I'm just a stickler for accuracy.

That always bugs me too - probably more than it should. I just can't appreciate the work if the sun is blatantly in the wrong place. I mean, if it's done in the style of Van Gogh, then fair enough, I don't care where the sun is... but for realism, I just think the sun should not set in the North. It's a thing.

[tty]

I just think the sun should not set in the North. It's a thing.

Lucky for You that you're not living up here near the arctic circle where it does just that all summer.

tty

[mhoward]

Lucky for You that you're not living up here near the arctic circle where it does just that all summer.

I was thinking of adding "when you're near the equator of a planet with a relatively modest axial tilt" to what I wrote above, but I figured people would know what I meant.