Science Art: Mars – Jezero Crater – NASA’s Perseverance Landing, Feb 18,2021

1 December 2024 grant Featured, Science Art 0

Scientific illustration in the form of an amplified photograph. The frame is filled mostly - but not entirely - with the red surface of Mars, a corner of deep space visible to the top left. In the center, barely visible, is a gleaming steel circle, a tiny droplet of metal descending to the rust-colored surface.
Scientific illustration in the form of an amplified photograph. The frame is filled mostly - but not entirely - with the red surface of Mars, a corner of deep space visible to the top left. In the center, barely visible, is a gleaming steel circle, a tiny droplet of metal descending to the rust-colored surface.

This is a piece of art, or scientific illustration, I found on the Flickr account of Andrea Luck, though the full credit is NASA/JPL-Caltech/Simeon Schmauß/AndreaLuck. Schmauß apparently processed a mosaic (which I think means “stitched together one image from a lot of pictures”) from NASA/JPL’s Lander Vision System Camera LCAM Sol 0. Luck seems to have added color, or maybe amplified the saturation or contrast.

The ship looks so small, descending to the planet … the frozen desert, the dusty unbreathable wind.