Geologists Taste Stones
Long Exposure Photograph. 2015

An attempt to represent the surface of Mars using an Australian beach, lit by an image taken by the the Opportunity rover of Wdowiak Ridge, Mars, September 2014.

Wdowiak Ridge, is named after Thomas Wdowiak (1939-2013) whos interest in things extraterrestrial was kindled by his discovery of a painting in the basement library of his elementary school in Binghamton, New York, which depicted Charles Bonestell’s idea of a Martian landscape.

Wdowiak, went onto be one of the pioneers of the Mars rover program, pivotal in allowing for the image of Wdowiak Ridge to be taken in 2014.
 
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