I remember sitting in the planetarium as a child feeling an odd mixture of fear and awe. Fear of what I’m not sure, or maybe I have no way of expressing in words. I suppose the fear derived from the devastating knowledge that there was so much more out there than just stars and planets.
And then I discovered 2001: A Space Oddity, a film which managed to depict that sense of fear and wonder. I’m glad to say the feelings are the same now as they were then, I’m still as awed and terrified, and that’s a good thing, the magic is present as always. I feel the same when looking at NASA’s satellite images, they feel so abstract and cold and unfamiliar, and for that reason they excite me. I want to unravel and extract the mysteries behind the milky atmospheres.
UK’s Telegrapgh recently published a gallery of images from NASA’s satellite reconaissance mission to Mars. There’s something magnificent and strange and removed in the images, brings a chill to my spine (in a good way).
