As regular readers of UMSF will know, Stu and I enjoy collaborating on various projects, most noteably quite a few posters over the years.
Here's our latest effort...Stu has produced his usual brilliant prose, this time on a work called 'Two Explorers'.
He compares Opportunity's voyage to that of Captain James Cook...very fitting given the crater Endeavour is named after Cook's vessel of exploration.

Anyway, we hope you enjoy this poster.
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A full resolution (5.9mb) version is on my blog.

congratulations: this is just beautiful !!!

Ruddy good show!

Absolutely stunning poster, Astro0, perhaps the best one yet. I'm always stunned to see how beautiful you can make my scribblings look. Thank you!

You're very welcome Poet Dude

Wow. VERY nice, you guys; that's a beautiful composition!

Fav mental image: ..."silent cinnamon surf..." ...brilliant!

This is totally AMAZING and BRILLIANT! Stu and Astro0, I am both impressed and touched.

Excellent excellent work.

Did you notice the dotted line along the edge of Endeavour? Oppy's future explorations, I suppose? Notice that the dotted line doesn't stop, but leads off the image to other unknowns.

Glad that you picked that with the dotted line. Sailing further into unknown 'waters'. That's the story of both Rovers.
Did you spot the map Cook has on his table?

Ahh I did not notice that the first time I saw it.

Very nice indeed and I would have the Rovers Path go into the crater and keep on going to the other side and beyond. By 2014 Portugal will win The World Cup and Opportunity will be leaving Endeavor and heading on to meet MSL to shake hands .

Astro0 and Stu, your make-up of this poster "à la 19ème siècle" is very nice indeed. As if I was looking to an old book purchased in an antiques bookshop. How nice again. Thanks !

I'd have her summit at least one of the Endeavour hills...

To fully appreciate how impressive a job this is, have a look at the original. Before I saw that, I wasn't sure how much of the map was faked, and I had no idea Cook's hat was there originally!

Awesome work guys!

Lovely! - Where did you find such a hi-res image of the Cook painting?

> hires image of Cook?

Google is good for stuff like that