Growing up in communist Bulgaria as a little girl who was obsessed with space and Mars, I had very little information as to the latest advances in science, so I didn't know that NASA’s Mariner 9, and later the Viking 1 and Viking 2 missions, had already disproved the channels on Mars. So I remember when I was 10 or 12 and later reading books about the channels on Mars, which were, of course, outdated, but, you know, it still was so very pleasurable to read and still fascinating and supported my dreams and imagination about Mars. And now, due to JPL's robots on Mars, I can actually do Mars paintings and use my imagination to build based on what the robots see and inspire me in a new and different way.