Annie Maunder Prize for Image Innovation 2024

Category winner

Anatomy of a Habitable Planet by Sergio Díaz Ruiz

"This seemingly alien world is actually our endangered planet, Earth, as a distant civilization might study it," explains Sergio.

"This image was created by mixing the 16 bands monitored by the GOES-18 weather satellite to encode landmasses, oceans and atmospheric features as different colours."

Original data from GOES-18 ABI (Bands 1 to 16 (0.47 to 13.3 microns)) from 18 February 2024 and Suomi-NPP VIIRS (0.5 to 0.9 microns) from 2012–2020

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1 / 5

Swarm

Original image data from the MRO HiRISE camera, IRB, RGB, from 24 August 2009. Data credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona

2 / 5

Martian Dementors

Original image data from the MRO HiRISE camera, IRB, RGB, from 27 July 2009

3 / 5

The Heart of the Galaxy

Original image data from Spitzer IRAC (3.6, 4.5, 5.8 and 8 microns) from September 2005 and April 2006, Herschel SPIRE (250 microns) and PACS (70 μm and 160 μm) from September 2010 and MeerKAT L-band receiver (23.4 cm) from May–July 2018

4 / 5

M16: the Pillars of Creation

Original image data from the Hubble Wide Field Camera 3 (WCF3, F502N, F657N, F673N) from September 2014 and the James Webb Space Telescope Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam, F090W, F187N, F335M) and Mid-Infrared Instrument (F770W) from August 2022. Hubble Space Telescope September 2014, James Webb Space Telescope August 2022. Data credit: NASA/ESA/SCScI

5 / 5

Anatomy of a Habitable Planet

Original data from GOES-18 ABI (Bands 1 to 16 (0.47 to 13.3 microns)) from 18 February 2024 and Suomi-NPP VIIRS (0.5 to 0.9 microns) from 2012–2020