Sun & Mars
In A Shadow At The Top Of A Lone Hill,
The Moon Tried To Save Me From A Fire
That Is Always My Forever Burning.
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Obscuration: 62.8%
Start: 09:06:11.0
Max: 10:22:00.5
End: 11:45:53.7
When it started, I did. When it ended, I did.
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The images made within are all mosaics captured in sections and then reassembled, designed to be exhibited thirty by forty or larger.
Cover image is an image of the moon transitioning across the Sun, taken by SDO/NASA – in 171 Angstrom Extreme Ultraviolet Light on August 21, 2017.
A Real False Mars
In The Shadow Of A Real False Mars,
At The Gate Of A Real False Hell,
On An Actual Eve.
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The Jet Propulsion Laboratory MarsYard is a simulated Martian landscape used by the research and flight projects to test different robotic prototypes in Pasadena, California.
I was not allowed access to the MarsYard, so I walked the JPL fence line shared with the Arroyo Seco watershed. In the Arroyo Seco is The Devil’s Gate.
In 1920 flood engineers from the Los Angeles County Flood Control District built Devil’s Gate Dam in the Arroyo Seco, the first flood control dam in Los Angeles County. Named for a rock outcropping which resembles the face of a devil, Devil’s Gate Gorge, located in northern Pasadena between La Cañada Flintridge and Altadena, is the narrowest spot on the Arroyo Seco’s course below Millard Canyon.
I walked this JPL FENCE line for 200 minutes on the eve of Christmas.
The images made here are all mosaics captured in sections and then reassembled, designed to be exhibited thirty by forty inches or larger.
Cover image is a mosaic of the Valles Marineris hemisphere of Mars projected into point perspective, a view similar to that which one would see from a spacecraft. The distance is 2500 kilometers from the surface of the planet, with the scale being .6km/pixel. The mosaic is composed of 102 Viking Orbiter images of Mars. source/Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.