This time it really is a Friday, but the picture isn’t a photo, no matter how much it looks like one. It’s one of Kees Veenenbos’s [1] amazing renderings of other worlds based on the available data from space flights. His work has appeared in National Geographic (print edition ). Go to Veenenbos’s site [2] and lose yourself.
To give you an idea of what you’ll be missing if you don’t go, here’s a picture of Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa [3], based on data from the Voyager Imaging Team. [Update, 2009-09-27: not currently posted on that site.]
space, art, Veenenbos