#CrashSite

2025-06-03
SMART 1 / crash site

Replica of a work by the painter Donato Creti (1671-1749) from the series ‘Astronomical Observations’ (1711), which was commissioned by the artist - painted and minimally altered by a copyist. The copyist added a small shadow to the depiction of the moon that refers to the crash site of the lunar probe SMART 1 (ESA), which was deliberately destroyed in 2006 after a mission lasting several years. The outlines are based on a photograph taken by NASA's lunar probe ‘Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter’, which captured the crash site.

The work was realized in the frame of an Artist-in-Science Residency at European Space Agency - ESA / ESOC in Darmstadt in 2022, hosted by Kultur einer Digitalstadt e.V..

[Swaantje Güntzel, SMART 1 / crash site, 2022, oil on canvas, 51 x 35 cm]

Foto: Tobias Hübel
Foto crash site: P. Stooke/B. Foing et al 2017/ NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University

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Two men can be seen standing on a wooded hill and observing the moon. The full moon is above them on the right. One of the men is looking at the moon through a telescope, the other is sitting on the ground in front of a spread-out map and looking at the man with the telescope. The men are wearing colourful robes, as was common in the 17th century. A small black spot can be seen in the moon. The work was created as an oil on canvas painting, the frame is a golden frame.You can see a blurred black and white image on which the rough outline of the moon's surface can be guessed. Different sized round moon crater outlines can be recognised. In the upper part of the image, an outline reminiscent of the shape of the letter ‘T’ can be seen - the outline of the crashed Smart 1 lunar probe.
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