searching for an old NASA image...

November 7, 2008 8:24 PM

I can't for the life of me find this old NASA image of an engineer hand drawing a pixelated image from one of the early mars missions. My understanding is that they didn't have printers available quickly enough to visualize the images they were getting back so they printed up sheets of the numbers and added color themselves.

Either way, its a picture of an engineer with a sharp crew cut and a plaid shirt drawing in the pixels on long strips of paper with numbers printed. Any links to that image or more information on its origin would be awesome!

cheers

posted by garethspor to science & nature (6 comments total)

Is it this story? There's a picture at the bottom, but not as you describe.
posted by jedicus at 9:07 PM on November 7, 2008 [3 favorites has favorites]

What a wonderful story.
posted by SirStan at 9:37 PM on November 7, 2008

ta da!

(hand-colored pixels jpl)
posted by troy at 9:59 PM on November 7, 2008 [3 favorites has favorites]

^ I feel like every story I read on that .au site my IQ goes up a quarter point. . .
posted by troy at 10:16 PM on November 7, 2008

That is so ultra-cool. A human, color, dot matrix printer. Nice.
posted by sanka at 11:43 PM on November 7, 2008

What an awesome story...!
posted by odinsdream at 8:24 AM on November 8, 2008