Photos of interplanetary vehicles are primarily a source of scientific information. At the same time, they are also an important part of the popularization of science. Fortunately, this usually does not require much effort: because of their unusualness, extraterrestrial landscapes are able to attract attention without any additional advertising. It should also be remembered that the cameras of the interplanetary station can shoot in wave ranges inaccessible to the human eye.
The combination of all these factors can turn space photographs into a real work of art, reminiscent of the canvases of avant-garde artists. The following pictures taken with the MRO are examples. They show the dunes covering the bottom of one of the small, unnamed craters north of Antoniadi Crater. The combination of landscapes carved by the Martian wind and dark lines (perhaps traces left by dust tornadoes) are literally mesmerizing to the eye.
All images were taken with a HiRISE camera. It shoots in three color ranges: wavelengths from 400 to 600 nm (blue-green), from 550 to 850 nm (red) and from 800 to 1000 nm (near infrared, which is invisible to the human eye). When composing color images, the blue-green part of the wavelength range is assigned to the blue color of the pixels, red to green, and infrared to red.