Space mural

Thank you for rating! You have already rated this page, you can only rate it once! Your rating has been changed, thanks for rating! - Title Space mural Released 03/12/2013 1:36 pm Copyright ESA/Telespazio Argentina S.A./Federico Romero Description - Earlier this year, the the city of Malargüe in Argentina held their annual Spring Festival with music concerts, traditional food and a parade. The week prior to the event, there was a workshop for people interested in wall painting - 'murales' in Spanish. On a lovely spring morning, many people - mostly groups of school students - began working on their murales, to be drawn on certain walls where the owners had granted permission. When the day was done, one of the walls was finished with a wonderful painting showing a satellite together with ESA's 35 m-diameter deep-space tracking station, opened in December 2012 and sitting just a few kilometres outside the city. The student artists who created this 'space murales' called themselves the 'Trio Payun', comprising Hugo Orlando Aravena, Lucas Martin Cerda and Iván Garcia y Ramos, all from the Escuela 3-034 Maestro Julio Andrés Mercado school, Malargüe. The team worked under the supervision of an adult, Omar Riquelme. The painting includes the students' initials, as well as the messages 'Naturaleza y desarrollo' (Nature and development) and 'Cuidemosla' (Let's take care of it!).