REPRESENTATION OF MARS LANDSCAPE TEXTURE FROM RESULTS OF HIRISE CAMERAS AS A MEAN OF ASTRONOMY EDUCATION AT THE JAKARTA PLANETARIUM

• Main Author: Anjani, Alesya
• Format: Final Project
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/55406
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second smallest planet in the Solar System after Mercury. Mars is one of the most explored space objects in our solar system. The desire to explore Mars as the closest planet to be inhabited continues to be an issue that has been haunted by many scientists, including NASA and SpaceX ,. Although it is the 'closest' planet on earth, human technology is still limited to bring humans to really set their foot on Mars and knowing the real conditions on the Red Planet. No human has yet set foot on Planet Mars so far. In order to 'bring Mars closer together' with people with limited astronomical access, the author then explores the texture of the ceramic body that interprets the surface of the planet Mars, with visual references from a technology launched by NASA and the University of Arizona called HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) which has capturing photographs of the surface of Mars since 2006, using various techniques of forming ceramic bodies, body surfaces and glaze exploration into objects representing samples of the surface of Mars which can be seen directly by the public at Planetarium Jakarta as one of the Astronomy science education centers in Indonesia.