@legogizmo
That has got to be one of the most unique paint by numbers ever. NASA should make a coloring book of them.
@Lord_eBatts
World's most stressful colour-by-number colouring book
@NathanRL
Fun fact: This picture is currently located at JPL in California! Had a chance to see it in person on a tour there a while back, it's even cooler in person and pretty wild to see this pop up on my feed
@drenzine
The fact that that wasn't the landscape of Mars but was actually a part of Mars from space blew my mind
@dbmeo3417
No graphics card? WE ARE THE GRAPHICS CARD LOL
@TinkerRaw
This is posted up in a hallway at JPL. It was one of those inspiring things that i saw as a student/intern that stuck with me as i stayed in space exploration. I was working on a cubesat mission design there when given the chance to tour.
@casey6556
A fun fact about this image: the original, as shown, was black and white. They chose the yellows and reds and browns for the hand colouring simply because it allowed for better shading, not anything to do with Mars being red.
@lukrezialaval2406
This pleases the artist and the astronomer inside me ☺️
@capt.kneecaps5237
theres nothing i love more than when astronauts or researchers just go “fuck it i’ll draw it” and they just draw what they see. there’s this drawing done by a russian astronaut that i just cant find of when he saw the sun creeping over the horizon at the level of the karman line, and i just cant find it anywhere
@xkcloud
I don't know why or how, but this video is weirdly incredibly heartwarming for me.
@galaxygamerman
You have to really appreciate how much computer technology has advanced in the past 60 years, that it was literally faster for them to colour by hand, than wait for a computer to print it
@qlsRaizen
Actually Unbelievably impressive
@Jellyfish146
That's amazing, there's something so human about that solution. Art and science and impatience
@mr.joaquin7830
Shit like this makes me wanna cry. Humans and so curious, eager, and creative by nature. It's what we see in children and we never really lose it
@madyati
Your shorts look so cozy
@Itsjustme-Justme
Back in the day when decyphering the code of a digital photo manually and painting it was faster than letting a computer and printer do it.
@romanmay2867
very cool how the pastel one turned into something you might see on the surface of mars, long before we knew
@ArkayeCh
It's so cool because we built computers in our own image. The processors, graphics cards and peripherals are just paralells to how our bodies beam out images to the brain. Code is DNA and sensations. So this panting is literally a missing link between us and that creation. GLORY TO THE MACHINE SPIRITS
@_ch1pset
And here I thought waiting for images to load in the year 2000 was bad
@murrmurishka