The current edition of the
Journal of the British Interplanetary Society (Jan/Feb 2004) contains an article entitled "New Method of Terraforming" by Abas Kangi, illustrated with a rather poor greyscale reproduction of an image of a terraformed Mars with clouds and seas, credited to
www.celestiaproject.net/gallery. The original image isn't now present in the gallery, as far as I can see, but I'm guessing it's most likely one by Don Edwards, from the Mars Terraforming project. It shows the northern hemisphere ocean with the Elysium volcanoes standing up as an island, a specular reflection off the bay formed by Isidis Planitia, and the flooded Hellas basin on the limb of the planet, with a few wisps of equatorial cloud crossing the middle of the planet disc. No colours to judge the level of vegetation, if any.
If anyone recognizes that and we can match the image precisely, I'll happily drop the BIS a letter asking them to give due credit to Celestia and the texture's author.
Even if we can't pin down the image's origin, its presence in JBIS will likely bring in some visitors via the gallery pages
Grant
