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While at NASA/JPL the other day, I visited an old friend: the hand assembled and colored map from the first Mariner 4 tv image. A geologist got impatient waiting for the image processing folks to assemble the image, so they printed out the raw values onto tiny strips, stapled them to a wall, and hand-colored it with pastels. To save the map, it was sawed out of the wall and framed as a gift to the Lab director. Recently remounted and preserved. #NASA #JPL #Map #Mariner4 #Pastels #Geologist
Me, Dr. Fred J. Calef III, wearing a baseball cap, red N95 mask, and brown/black jacket, standing in front of the pastel Mariner map. It was hand colored from numbers printed in vertical strips of paper in yellow, orange, and brown pastels.
A legend for the pastel Mariner map. Labels, top to bottom, black vertical line labeled “Edge of Frame”, dark brown swatch , 50-45 DN ‘Dark’, umber swatch, 45-40 DN, orange swatch, 40-35 DN, white swatch, 35-30 DN, orange-yellow swatch, 30-25 DN, yellow swatch, 25-30 DN, ‘Light’.
Five Rembrandt Artist Pastels in colors left to right, dark brown, orange, “Flesh Ochre”, pale orange, “Lemon Yellow”. These are the original pastels used to make the pastel Mariner map. NASA/JPL-Caltech.
Historical picture of two men, each wearing indentical white dress short-sleeved shorts, black pants, black belts, and having short black cropped hair standing in front of the pastel Mariner map on a white drywall wall at NASA/JPL. Image from July 14, 1965. Official caption reads, “Telecommunications engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory putting the finishing touches on their color-by-number version of Mariner 4's digital data.”
#nasa #JPL #map #mariner4 #pastels #geologist

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