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European Space Agency

Press Release

Picture Mars - let us animate your ideas

15 April 2003
 
Europe is going to Mars and we would like to see your ideas on how
you imagine the Red Planet. The best images will be featured in an
animation on the ESA website. 
 
Mars has always held a fascination for us Earthlings. It is currently
the only other planet in the solar system where scientists believe
there is a possibility of finding life.

ESA's Mars Express will be launched in June, arriving at Mars in time
for Xmas. It will not alone - a flotilla of international spacecraft
are destined to explore Mars in 2003/2004. 

We would like to see your visual interpretation of Mars - it could be
the planet as seen from Earth, what the lander might find on the
surface, life on Mars, or your ideas for the future colonisation of
the planet. 

You can draw, paint or make a collage of pictures to present your
idea of Mars. ESA will select and publish the best of these in a web
animation. Images will be selected based on originality and graphic
appeal. This invitation is open to all ages and nationalities - the
only limit is your imagination! 
 
How to submit a picture
 
If you would like to share your ideas with thousands of other ESA
Portal visitors, just download the template below and present your
artwork within the white circle.

Entry is by electronic mail only. Your image files should be sent to
us as gifs or jpegs. Please do not send image files larger than
100 K.

Do not forget to include your name, address and your age if under
18*. Please provide a short description about the idea behind your
image.

Please send your images to: picturemars{at}esa.int

Remember - electronic mail only. Please do not send us original
artwork by post; we will not be able to return it.

If your image is chosen, we will publish your name on the ESA Web
Portal. Please note that ESA reserves the right to edit your image
for the purpose of the animation.
 
*Copyright and protection of privacy
 
In contributing to the ESA Portal, the artist agrees to grant ESA a
royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish artwork. Copyright
remains with the originator of the artwork, but ESA reserves the
right to edit the image for the purpose of the animation.

We request your name and address in case we need to contact you and
to validate all entries. Any submissions without this information
will be excluded. ESA strictly observes personal data privacy and
does not sell or rent its website users' names, addresses, email
addresses or other personal information.

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