Comments on: The sun and mars

The sun and mars

vronsky — Sat, 19 May 2007 15:28:54 -0800

Mars as art and the sun as art.

By: chrismear

chrismear — Sat, 19 May 2007 15:33:51 -0800

The Sun: scientifically, and now artistically, proven to be the most terrifying object in the Solar System.

By: psmealey

psmealey — Sat, 19 May 2007 15:38:26 -0800

Great stuff! Thanks, vronsky.

By: East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94

East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 — Sat, 19 May 2007 15:43:43 -0800

the most terrifying object in the Solar System You forgot Grace Jones.

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Sat, 19 May 2007 15:52:54 -0800

ah, the Mars art images are wonderful. The Arabia Dunes one reminds me of the lovely, intense blues and greens of Chrysocolla.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Sat, 19 May 2007 16:01:12 -0800

Wonderful stuff—thanks, vronsky!

By: rob511

rob511 — Sat, 19 May 2007 16:02:39 -0800

A couple of (mild) cavils about the Mars shots: many of the most striking are shown in false or enhanced color; and it would be better if the shots were available in size midway between the (small) enlarged and the (huge) full-resolution versions. Kudos to vronsky and to NASA, in any event, for doing something like this.

By: vronsky

vronsky — Sat, 19 May 2007 16:05:08 -0800

Some amazing stuff to dig around and find in there. best of soho and this one.

By: Citizen Premier

Citizen Premier — Sat, 19 May 2007 16:12:42 -0800

Psh, I bet they're on the payroll of the Martian Board of Tourism.

By: quin

quin — Sat, 19 May 2007 16:16:04 -0800

Ooh, I like the sun as art. Shows what a complete home-wrecker it could be if it wanted to.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Sat, 19 May 2007 16:38:10 -0800

I liked the mid-school 80s NASA logo a lot better, probably because I grew up with it.

By: bru

bru — Sat, 19 May 2007 16:48:16 -0800

Stuff of legends. Thanks, vronsky.

By: vronsky

vronsky — Sat, 19 May 2007 17:09:03 -0800

And this one looks like a button straining against silk organza.

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Sat, 19 May 2007 17:49:47 -0800

like a button straining against silk organza *tee hee* You're naughty.

By: Mister_A

Mister_A — Sat, 19 May 2007 18:58:00 -0800

I like Mars, I like art, I like this post.

By: holycola

holycola — Sat, 19 May 2007 18:59:19 -0800

Beautiful! Thank you.

By: Joakim Ziegler

Joakim Ziegler — Sat, 19 May 2007 20:41:57 -0800

The sun as tacky, new-age "art", more like it. There are awesome photos here, why did they have to add a silhouette of Stonehenge or a horrid Photoshop "water reflection" to them? They're beautiful as they are, now they just look like something you'd expect to see on a poster right next to one of airbrushed wolves or something.

By: grapefruitmoon

grapefruitmoon — Sat, 19 May 2007 21:30:43 -0800

Some of the pictures of Mars remind me of the more abstract color-based photos from the Earth From Above series. (Specifically, Arabia Dunes reminds me of this one.) (And uh, I've had a postcard of that Earth From Above photo up in my home for the past four years and it took me a really long time to find it on the website. I am not insane and spending all of my time searching esoteric photos. Wait, actually, I am.)

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Sat, 19 May 2007 22:19:48 -0800

Great photos. Thanks vronsky.

By: Twang

Twang — Sat, 19 May 2007 23:21:30 -0800

I, for one, welcome the day when NASA considers us adult enough to provide the images in real(istic) colors. The universe is amazing ... without having to look like a box of crayons.

By: Twang

Twang — Sat, 19 May 2007 23:49:04 -0800

The desert in Iran is amazingly, wierdly artful: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/144200main_image_feature_522_ys_full.jpg http://bilddb.rb.kp.dlr.de/Bilder/jpeg300/223.jpg Some of the neatest images can be seen in Google Earth flying around in SE Iran. (Get down near the surface, pan toward horizon, push forward.) Some dune formations remind me of H.R. Giger's art. A lot of these are cool as well. This one's from the ESA, another source: http://narg.web.mcc.ac.uk/images/murzhuk_satellite_meris.jpg