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MAX IV artwork heading to the Moon

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An artwork based on the MAX IV Laboratory control system is about to land on the Moon. Filip Persson, Assistant Head of Accelerator Operations at MAX IV, has created the ’MAX IV Control System’ – a digital artwork visualising the connections within the MAX IV control system. By transforming data into imagery, Filip has produced an art piece that resembles galaxies and star clusters – as a tribute to science and space

The artwork was selected through a global art competition, the MoonMars Museum project, under the theme ’DNA, essence of Humanity’. Along with 46 other pieces, it has now been launched aboard a SpaceX rocket, carried by Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander, in the payload of Lifeship, with its destination set for Mare Crisium on the Moon’s surface – a vast lunar basin, 556 km in diameter, visible from Earth as one of the Moon’s prominent dark plains.

All the selected pieces are stored in a specially designed golden pyramid, preserved at an ultra-high resolution of 300,000 DPI, using state of the art Nanofiche technology, allowing them to be scaled up to 100x100 metres without any loss of quality. They now form part of humanity’s creative legacy in space.

For those who want to experience the artworks here on Earth, they are available in a metaverse gallery created by the MoonMars project. 

Find out more at: www.moonmars.com