The National History Museum celebrates the planet Mars this week along with other organisations. This is the 6th anniversary of the ExoMars mission, and there are special events taking place about the red planet. To coincide with this, there was a giant touring artwork located in the entrance hall of the museum on the 14th and 15th of March. Luke Jerram's Mars is currently being hosted at the museum, and it is seven meters in diameter with a resolution of 120dpi NASA imagery of the surface of the planet.
Luke Jerram has also created a giant moon, which is also on tour currently. The moon (there are multiples) had been hosted at a few venues in London before the pandemic and also toured globally and in the UK in the past couple of years, but I missed seeing it so far.
The artwork allows the visitor to examine the planet while it slowly rotates. Visitors can view the planet from the ground or from above on the balcony on the first floor.
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