--- title: 'Spirit at Troy' url: 'https://grav.alicesastroinfo.com/blog/spirit-at-troy' markdown: 'https://grav.alicesastroinfo.com/blog/spirit-at-troy.md' date: '2010-02-14' description: "Happy Valentine’s Day and Happy Lunar New Year, Spirit! Here are some of our imaginings about how you look as a station! Advanced Entries Silence at Troy - Spirit's Next Million Years from Emmanuel Gaffard There are six secrets hidden in this image. Emmanuel says: “Some are Mars exploration rel…" taxonomy: category: - 'AstroInfo Article' tag: - art - contest - Mars --- # [Spirit at Troy](https://grav.alicesastroinfo.com/blog/spirit-at-troy) 14th Feb 2010 [art](https://grav.alicesastroinfo.com/tag:art#body-wrapper) [contest](https://grav.alicesastroinfo.com/tag:contest#body-wrapper) [Mars](https://grav.alicesastroinfo.com/tag:Mars#body-wrapper) Happy Valentine’s Day and Happy Lunar New Year, Spirit! Here are some of our imaginings about how you look as a station! ## Advanced Entries [![](https://grav.alicesastroinfo.com/user/pages/blog/spirit-at-troy/Mars-Manu-final-X2.png "Mars Manu final X2")](http://www.alicesastroinfo.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Mars-Manu-final-X3.png)Silence at Troy - Spirit's Next Million Years from Emmanuel Gaffard There are six secrets hidden in this image. Emmanuel says: “Some are Mars exploration related. Kind of. Can you find them?” (I’ve found one so far … he sent me the answers, but I haven’t opened that file yet.) If you want the answers, comment below and I’ll e-mail them to you. Also of note – as this is pixel-art, the display, zoom, and rendering are important. See [below\*](#PixelArt) for extensive detail, or [visit PixelJoint.com](http://www.pixeljoint.com) to increase your exposure to the medium. The original size of [Silence at Troy is available here](http://www.alicesastroinfo.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Mars-Manu-final.png). [![](https://grav.alicesastroinfo.com/user/pages/blog/spirit-at-troy/GaryMars11.jpg "GaryMars1")](https://grav.alicesastroinfo.com/user/pages/blog/spirit-at-troy/GaryMars11.jpg)Spirit on Mars - Gary Kezele This entry is from Gary Kezele, accomplished artist and astronomy-visualizer. Bear with us while we get a better scan of this image, but for now you can see a decent version of Gary’s submission! Please click to see it in more detail. Both these entries show amazing attention to detail – and you can tell they looked closely at the photos of Spirit’s location. ## Hobby Entries From [@MamaJoules](http://mamajoules.blogspot.com/) come two model entries – one from each son. I love them both, and bet that it was a lot of fun to build rovers out of Legos and then try to position them just right in the “sand.” :) [![](https://grav.alicesastroinfo.com/user/pages/blog/spirit-at-troy/KermsRover.jpg "KermsRover")](https://grav.alicesastroinfo.com/user/pages/blog/spirit-at-troy/KermsRover.jpg)Spirit - by Kerm, 8 The camera mast is great, there are lots of fun details, and the flag is a nice touch too! [![](https://grav.alicesastroinfo.com/user/pages/blog/spirit-at-troy/LittleBrothersRover.jpg "LittleBrothersRover")](https://grav.alicesastroinfo.com/user/pages/blog/spirit-at-troy/LittleBrothersRover.jpg)Spirit - by Little Brother, 4 Once again, the camera mast is in evidence, and the rover is just like Spirit: it has six wheels (I wonder if all of them work on this model). Thanks to everyone who submitted – I’ll be sending you all some fun NASA postcards. :) I’ll also pass these along to as much of the Spirit team as I can. ## More These were not submissions, and you’ve seen them before, but I had to include them in this post because I thought you’d enjoy them. [![](https://grav.alicesastroinfo.com/user/pages/blog/spirit-at-troy/sad-spirit.png "sad-spirit")](https://grav.alicesastroinfo.com/user/pages/blog/spirit-at-troy/sad-spirit.png)Spirit Embedded at Troy Credit: Keith Enevoldsen [![](https://grav.alicesastroinfo.com/user/pages/blog/spirit-at-troy/stuck1.jpg "stuck1")](https://grav.alicesastroinfo.com/user/pages/blog/spirit-at-troy/stuck1.jpg)Image from Stuart Atkinson Go see more of [Stuart’s Mars Art](http://cumbriansky.wordpress.com/2010/01/26/a-very-big-day-for-spirit/). ## \[\*Pixel Art\]() Emmanuel has sent these details about viewing pixel art, which I found fascinating. > Pixel-art makes for small images and files. They should ideally be viewed at 200%, 300% max. You should be able to just see the pixels without them being overwhelming. > Displaying pieces at 100% makes them look very small, and the pixels are lost on good monitors. > > ***Using the browser zoom is not an option!*** All current browsers use ‘bilinear filtering’ for zooming images (and most image viewing software too), the result is horribly blurry on pixel-art (you might have noticed this if you browsed the [Pixeljoint gallery](http://pixeljoint.com/default.asp) and used the zoom function. However, from Firefox 3.6, websites can opt for an old-fashioned unfiltered zoom function. This is not something the user can do, it’s only a website-side option. So if you visited Pixeljoint using Fx 3.6, you didn’t notice any problem. You should note, I did not do anything website-side to enable this function in Firefox. All his images are displayed exactly at the resolution I got from him though. Clicking the main image takes you to his 300% zoom version. ## Want More? [The Mars Exploration Program at JPL](http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/) Thanks all! Let’s do it again sometime. Thanks to the NASA Solar System Ambassadors Program for the support. [![](https://grav.alicesastroinfo.com/user/pages/blog/spirit-at-troy/SSA.gif "Solar System Ambassadors")](https://grav.alicesastroinfo.com/user/pages/blog/spirit-at-troy/SSA.gif) ![](https://grav.alicesastroinfo.com/user/pages/blog/spirit-at-troy/Mars.png)~ A l i c e ! --- ## Navigation - Previous: [Space Missions You Really Should Know](https://grav.alicesastroinfo.com/blog/space-missions-you-really-should-know.md) - Next: [Spring](https://grav.alicesastroinfo.com/blog/spring.md)