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[djellison]

Right - I'm actually going to go ahead and try and get this thing made. I'm starting to make proper panoramas - a collection of probably a dozen for each rover - which will be submitted to the publishers as a portfolio and proof of concept.

However - for the best chance of being published - I need to know what people want - so.....ermm..whadda you want

I'm not going to do any 3d images. red-blue glasses just are NOT coffee table material - and as these rovers dont have Green+Blue in the right eye - it's not easy to make colour anaglyphs

But - I am going to do several mosaics - and a few individual images - but 99% pancam. Do you think I should use Navcam as well? What about Hazcam? What sort of text descriptor would you like for each image - perhaps a diary type format - or collate all the text at the back as a sol-by-sol account.

Do you want MOC images showing routes and image location and direction? etc.etc.etc.

Any and all ideas much appreciated - as they give me more idea of what will be acceptable when I come to present to a Publisher. I will initially be approaching Random House - whos inprint Jonathan Cape published 'Full Moon' here in the UK. If I have no luck there - I'll go to National Geogrpahic - who published a similar book called 'Orbit'.

I'll keep you all posted

Doug

[monitorlizard]

One thing I always wanted to see in a Mars book was a modern map of the planet
with an acetate overlay of Lowell's Mars canals to see what (admittedly weak) correlations
there were. The World Book Encyclopedia yearbooks used to have fold-in acetate overlays
for various articles, but they never did the Mars thing.

[David]

One thing I always wanted to see in a Mars book was a modern map of the planet
with an acetate overlay of Lowell's Mars canals to see what (admittedly weak) correlations
there were.

Lowell's canals were pretty much of his own imagining; he projected canals onto any body he observed, even those with no surface features at all. But some of the canals drawn by earlier observers do have albedo feature correlates, though more by way of corresponding to nexuses where canals meet rather than the canals themselves - most canals were illusory attempts to connect barely visible dots into visually meaningful patterns. But in some cases (e.g. Syrtis Major) there have been very considerable movements of the darker surface material, and some of the albedo features observed by observers of the late 19th/early 20th century may not exist any more, at least in the location, size, and shape that they were observed.

[ustrax]

Doug...Any guess on the date of the so waited publication?...

[djellison]

Any guess when the rovers will stop working?

I can't start thinking about one till the other happens.

Doug