Imagining Titan

Posted by michael on Tuesday January 11, 2005 @09:36AM from the to-boldly-go dept.

Neil Halelamien writes "Recently the Planetary Society released the winning entries of their Huygens Art Contest. The contest challenged contestants to create artwork depicting what they imagine the ESA's Huygens probe will find when it descends to Titan's surface. 435 people from 35 countries entered the contest, and several of the winning images look like they would make great desktop backgrounds. The Huygens encounter with Titan is due for January 14 (Friday), but it looks like there isn't any live coverage planned of this exciting event."

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The cg one by iamlucky13 · 2005-01-11 12:10 · Score: 2, Interesting

I don't like to compare computer modeled art to handmade, but the one that held my attention the most was Titan Sunset, which showed the sun behind Saturn's rings look out over a Titan shoreline. Totally unrealistic I know, but imagine if it actually were possible to look up in the morning and see Saturn hanging overhead with it's rings shining in the sunbeam's.